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TFT CURRENT ISSUE| January 25-31, 2013 - Vol. XXIV, No. 50

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In This Week

Editorial

Najam Sethi:  Policy formulation in hard times

News & Analysis

Safiya Aftab:  Reform or retribution

B Sadiq:  Power and policy

Mohammad Shehzad:  Balance of power

Rauf Klasra:  Forgive and forget?

Imtiaz Gul:  The drone dilemma

Imtiaz Gul:  Lessons from Turkey

Shahzad Raza:  Times change, people change

Ali K Chishti:  Karachi's war

Features

Adil Shahzeb:  'We must introspect'

Garga Chatterjee:  Remember Rituparno?

Sabahat Zakariya:  What happens in Karachi...

TFT:  "One can't live by indie music"

Nandini Krishnan:  A dud from De-ol' boys

Tazeen Javed:  Speak easy

Noor Jehan Mecklai:  Going Dutch

Usman Hamid:  The constant gardeners

Hamza Khalil:  A time for flowers

Fayes T Kantawala:  Once upon a time in Lahore

Fred Bremner collection:  Begum of Bhopal (1920)

 

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Remembering Mehnaz Begum

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Chhaap Tilak
 

Dadra 'Jiya Mein Lagi An Baan'

 

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Mehnaz Begum (1958 - 2013) was born in karachi to the celebrated subcontinental singer Kajjan Begum. She was trained under her mother in music and sang a variety of genres, including ghazal, thumri, dadra and geet. She also sang for films in the 70s and 80s. She died last week at Bahrain Airport while traveling from Karachi to Miami, where she was going for medical treatment.

In Track 1 she is singing Amir Khushrau's Chhaap Tilak in a private mehfil.

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