Almas Hyder

Mr. Almas Hyder is an Engineering graduate from University of Engineering & Technology, a Certified Trainer of Entrepreneurship and has completed his OPM (Owner/President Management Program) from Harvard Business School. 

He is currently a member of the Institute of Engineers in Pakistan, Institute of Material in London and Vice President of the Harvard Club of Pakistan. Mr. Hyder also serves at senior positions for many organizations. His current engagements include: 

 President Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industries 

 Director, SPEL Technology Support (Private) Limited 

 CEO, Entrepreneurship Development and Advisory Services (Private) Limited 

 CEO, AJ Power (Private) Limited 

 CEO, RT Power (Private) Limited 

 CEO, MST Power (Private) Limited 

To his credit is also the writing of the ‘Engineering Vision 2012 of Pakistan’. He established TUSDEC (Technology Up-gradation and Skills Development Company), where he was the Founder Chairman, under the Ministry of Industries, Production and Special Initiatives. 

Mr. Hyder was the first President of the Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate Board, set up Punjab Industrial Estate Development and Management Company of the Government of Punjab in an effort to manage and upgrade the infrastructure of Kot Lakhpat Industrial Estate in Lahore. Through his hard work and effective leadership, Mr. Hyder has had an everlasting positive impact in both the plastic industry and the entrepreneurship circles of Pakistan.

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Sara Suleri

Sara Suleri Goodyear is Professor of English at Yale University, the founding editor of The Yale Journal of Criticism and on the editorial board of The Yale Review and Transition. As an academic, her fields of interest are listed as “Romantic and Victorian poetry…Edmund Burke…” and her concerns “postcolonial literatures and theory, contemporary cultural criticism, literature and law, Urdu poetry.”

            Ms Suleri was born in Pakistan, grew up in Lahore, graduated from Kinnaird College, did her Masters in English from PunjabUniversity and a doctorate from Indiana University. She encapsulated memories of her Lahore childhood in her creative memoir Meatless Days (1989), at the heart of which were the tragic accidents that killed her mother and sister. Furthermore, as the daughter of the eminent journalist Z.A. Suleri, she observed political events and political opinions being forged from close quarters and wove the story of Pakistan into her narrative. The book was remarkable for the quality of Suleri’s prose and her use of metaphor to define chapters, and not only marked an important milestone in Pakistani English literature, but is now one of the classical texts of South Asian English literature. She went on to write a critical work The Rhetoric of English India (1992), a rather complicated work, which explores the way English writing was used to perceive and define the subcontinent, from the rhetoric of Edmund Burke to the fiction of Salman Rushdie. The book also includes discussions on Fanny Parkes, Kipling, E.M. Forster and Naipaul.

            She lives between Maine and New Haven and has recently published another accomplished memoir Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter’s Elegy about her journalist father. In this brief fax interview with Newsline, she answers a few questions about her books.  My novel is that “the novel is not about getting inside but is about showing what happened, without explanation, with “no introductions”

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