Archive for February, 2012
Madeeha Ishtiaque on 29, Feb 2012 | 80 Comments
Stop the Drama! That’s one statement for it. There has to be a clear difference between a morning show and a theatre performance, and Maya Khan has victoriously blurred it to invisibility. Don’t y...
Laeeq Peeran on 29, Feb 2012 | 5 Comments
Do you feel self conscious? Is it the way you look or the way you think you look? Who judges you and why do you care about their opinions?
Identify what you're terribly consci...
Adiah Afraz on 29, Feb 2012 | 7 Comments
A couple of weeks back, I was invited to two events in close succession. One was the Karachi Literature Festival in Karachi, and the other was something called Haya Day on facebook.
The f...
Hasnain Iqbal on 29, Feb 2012 | 1 Comment
Loss of innocence maybe celebration for some but then there are others who bemoan it with the kind of grief reserved for the dear departed. Many among us equate innocence with a world untouched by the...
Mariam Magsi on 28, Feb 2012 | 12 Comments
When I interviewed Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy a year ago for an independent project in the works - “The Legendary Faces of Pakistan” - little did I know that the visionary and brave individual I was ha...
Atiq-ur-Rehman on 28, Feb 2012 | No Comments
A hectic schedule every day, from 8:00 am college to tuitions then socializing and back home. And even back home one just got one's brain and eyes hooked to the screen of the laptop or PC and there...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 28, Feb 2012 | 15 Comments
The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, in fact it’s not even past. The past lives on and smoulders in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat. Ten years after the worst communal massacre in the 21st cent...
Omair Alavi on 28, Feb 2012 | 10 Comments
They came, they saw and they conquered. That's the best way to describe England's limited overs leg of the series against Pakistan. Despite losing the test series 3-0, the English team staged one ...
Zohaib Ansari on 27, Feb 2012 | 13 Comments
I give only one message. It is the message of the morrow, the message of history. Believe only in the people, work only for their emancipation and equality. The paradise of God lies under the feet of ...
Faiza Hai on 27, Feb 2012 | 6 Comments
Today, you can see the headlines blazing on all the TV channels that, Pakistani documentary ‘Saving Face’ produced by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has won the Oscar Award. In the 84 years history of the ...
Noor Ahmad on 24, Feb 2012 | 6 Comments
As a teacher of grade 5, I come across children who are ten and eleven year old, on the borders of adulthood and struggling to find an identify for themselves. Last week, I noticed a boy who had...
Fouad Khan on 24, Feb 2012 | 9 Comments
For a few days during the month of cusp between 2011 and 2012, in those shallows of packaged punditry called New York Times Op-Ed Section, Pakistan was no longer the country frothing the mos...
Rizwan Qadir on 24, Feb 2012 | 2 Comments
Given the commendable role the electronic media as well as the emerging social media are playing to bring about mass awareness in the country, a more well-informed and better educated nation, incr...
Omair Alavi on 23, Feb 2012 | No Comments
There are two kinds of movies – one that you forget the moment you leave the theatre and those which you keep on remembering despite leaving the cinema few days back. Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washin...
Saleem Sheikh on 23, Feb 2012 | 1 Comment
While the relief phase, stretched over six months, launched in areas ruined by 2011 floods has concluded, the Pakistani government in support with the United Nations has launched the $440 million ‘E...
Omair Alavi on 23, Feb 2012 | 1 Comment
Despite losing the one day series 4-0, despite being outclassed on all frontiers, despite lacking the ability to win, I feel that Pakistan has the upper hand in the Twenty20 series over worl...