An Enchanted Evening With Sur Sangum
I feel extremely offended when Karachi is dismissed as if it were only a financial hub of the country. Yes,...
I feel extremely offended when Karachi is dismissed as if it were only a financial hub of the country. Yes,...
Provincial Minister for Culture and Tourism Syed Sardar Ali Shah has said that nations are recognised for their history and...
Tent pegging, as the name suggests, is a sport of the cavaliers. It is an equestrian sport of removing wooden...
Puerto Vallarta lies in southern Mexico on the Pacific coast. We had been there once before, in 2019, and checked...
It was quite a surprising yet pleasant feel when I read the translation of Gurdial Singh’s novel Adh Chahnni Raat...
Modern-day Pakistani society is suffering from crises like terrorism, extremism, intolerance and polarisation. In this context, a cultural festival with...
It seem that now and in the coming days, we will have nothing else to do except mourning the death...
In the good old days when there was a regular exchange of theatre productions between India and Pakistan, the Pakistani...
“Don’t send me Happy New Year messages. This year like its predecessor won’t be happy from any angle but loaded...
Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in...
Some Indian friends are down in the dumps: they are the true music lovers and want the distinction between ‘awards’...
In the darkness of the early morning hours, a driver and tour guide were taking us up the High Andes...
Arguably the greatest loss to filmi music in 2022 was Lata Mangeshkar’s demise. She was the voice of the universe....
During the Fall 2022 semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course titled “The World of Islam,” taught by...
One might say that a performance can be reenacted but not repeated. The response of the audience is what makes...
Manto was a madman in the grip of the pen which he could not put down, which made all his...
I had long known about the mesmerising Sufi devotional music known as qawwali thanks to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, of...
The Lahore police arrested 280 accused for violating the Kite Flying Act during the current month alone. Police also recovered...
Canadian physician William Osler, often called the father of modern medicine, once said, “No man is really happy or safe...
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes was published in 1984. The book is hard to categorise in any one genre. Ostensibly...
Dur e Aziz Amna’s book succeeds on many counts, its beautiful prose, its readability and most importantly her distinct, strong...
On Saturday December 3, a book launch was held at Tagh’eer Creative Space for ‘Wolfie’, a children’s book written by...
Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists...
Much has been written about the Indian period film Mughal-e-Azam and much more shall continue to be written. The world...
Ever since we saw the Eight Immortals opera in Beijing, we had been planning to visit South Korea. Late one...
The Pakistani cultural heritage is known to be very diverse, and its essential elements are folk legacies and tangible symbols....
Longtime PTI spokesperson recently approached both the PPP...
A young Christian healthcare worker in Karachi, Sunita...
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