Archive for February, 2012

Bluffs,Tears and Apologies

on 29, Feb 2012 | 80 Comments

Bluffs,Tears and Apologies

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...

How to Stop Feeling Self Conscious

on 29, Feb 2012 | 5 Comments

How to Stop Feeling Self Conscious

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...

Mohammad Hanif and ‘Haya Day’

on 29, Feb 2012 | 7 Comments

Mohammad Hanif and ‘Haya Day’

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...

DRS: Umpire’s Bully or Buddy?

on 29, Feb 2012 | 1 Comment

DRS: Umpire’s Bully or Buddy?

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...

A Conversation with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

on 28, Feb 2012 | 12 Comments

A Conversation with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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...

Headaches …. From Mild to Deadly

on 28, Feb 2012 | No Comments

Headaches …. From Mild to Deadly

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...

Modi’s Gujarat defies Gandhi’s India

on 28, Feb 2012 | 15 Comments

Modi’s Gujarat defies Gandhi’s India

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...

Pakistan Self-Destructs against England

on 28, Feb 2012 | 10 Comments

Pakistan Self-Destructs against England

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 ...

A Martyr’s Mockery

on 27, Feb 2012 | 13 Comments

A Martyr's Mockery

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 ...

Oscar at Home

on 27, Feb 2012 | 6 Comments

Oscar at Home

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 ...

Should People Stay in Marriage for Kids?

on 24, Feb 2012 | 6 Comments

Should People Stay in Marriage for Kids?

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...

Imran and Orban

on 24, Feb 2012 | 9 Comments

Imran and Orban

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...

Where Dreams Meet Reality

on 24, Feb 2012 | 2 Comments

Where Dreams Meet Reality

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...

Safehouse – A Must-Watch Thriller

on 23, Feb 2012 | No Comments

Safehouse – A Must-Watch Thriller

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...

‘Early Recovery framework’ for Pakistan’s Flood Victims

on 23, Feb 2012 | 1 Comment

‘Early Recovery framework’ for Pakistan’s Flood Victims

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...

Can Pakistan Win The T20 series?

on 23, Feb 2012 | 1 Comment

Can Pakistan Win The T20 series?

  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...

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