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Review
Self-congratulations
Nandini Krishnan had mixed feelings about Bombay Talkies, a set of four films comemmorating 100 years of Indian cinema...
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Art
Land's end
What does the sight of burning buses tell us about our lives as citizens? Noor Jehan Mecklai contemplates the politically charged artworks of Taqi Shaheen and Aamir Habib at Karachi's Koel Gallery...
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History
The rolling stone - Major Ishaq (d.1986)
Ahmed Bashir profiled the Army officer and revolutionary leader Major Ishaq, a Punjabi Marxist who challenged the status quo in the early days of Pakistan and was punished by the state until the end of his life. Translated from the Urdu by Babar Mirza...
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Profile
Kindred spirit
Dr M Aamer Sarfraz offers a psychological appraisal of the writer, activist and wife of the former chief minister Punjab, Tehmina Durrani...
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Society
What's in a name?
The names given to villages, cities and people in South Asia used to record events of personal and communal significance. By Haroon Khalid...
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Books
"The 80s was a decade of imitations"
Fashion photographer and style icon Tapu Javeri, who has a delicious new book out this month, talks to TFT about his journey as a photographer, his near-death experience with Aaminah Haq in a swimming pool, and the time when Madame Noor Jehan rang up his father to demand some diamonds...
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History
Prince of Light
The writings of Dara Shikoh, heir apparent to the Mughal throne and disciple of Mian Mir, show a mind struggling to find the common core of Hinduism and Islam. Nighat Majid looks at this tragic prince's profound and timely work...
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Step forward
Umair Javed sounds a cautiously optimistic note about last week's historic election...
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Photo Archive
Iskander Mirza with Adnan Menderes (c1950)
by Dr Kazi's collection
Pakistani president Iskander Mirza and Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes walk together in this picture taken in the late 1950s, not too long before they both became victims of military...
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Scene
Cheater cocks
Fayes T Kantawala's Facebook friends are not cool with election results......
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