A Day with The Kalasha
goes to visit those who keep the old ways
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Tag: Culture
Can the Band keep playing?
Hanniah Tariq talks to a number of voices from Pakistan about the impact of COVID-19 on the arts and entertainment
“Pakistanis are in no way ready to accept more plays like Chewing Gum”
Muhammad Ali in conversation with screen-writer Adeel Razzaq
Sheema Kermani on Dance and Story-telling
An interview by Muhammad Ali
Black Bird of Cordoba
Syed Amir on a musician, aesthete and fashionista who graced some of the Muslim world’s most dazzling courts
Exploring the Margins of North Indian Culture
Sara Kazmi on the art, history and politics in Mudassar Bashir’s Kon
Let Dance take the Lead
Rehana Hyder takes us to an enthralling moment in the Islamabad Art Festival 2019
Urdu and Mass Culture
Muhammad Ali speaks to four writers whose output for TV has contributed to literary Urdu in our times
Monsters and Spirits of Khowar Folklore
Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir offers an overview of Chitral’s more legendary inhabitants
Farewell to Enver Sajjad – II
Raza Naeem offers a translation in which the late Enver Sajjad (1935 - 2019) writes about himself and his art
Farewell to Enver Sajjad – I
Raza Naeem offers a translation in which the late Enver Sajjad (1935 - 2019) writes about himself and his art
Of Tradition and Verse
Jamile Naqi in conversation with Danish Bashir about themes and motifs from tradition in Balochi poetry
Amir Khusraw – still beloved in Lahore
Sabah Husain of the Lahore Arts Foundation Trust (LAFT) speaks to TFT about the recent Bayad-e-Khusrow event
Of Cultural Highways and Smashed Music Records
Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain has been witness to how Pakistanis transformed their culture into a puritan one since Partition
Puppeteers of Mewar
Ambrin Hayat on a community of artistes who carry centuries-old traditions with them
A poet, a philosopher and a book launch
Report by Ammara Ahmad
Musical Musafir
Hanniah Tariq talks to Arieb Azhar about the extraordinary experiences that shaped his worldview and journey
Last of Peshawar’s Tabla-makers
Sohail Khattak finds that economic challenges affect these professionals, but nothing hits as hard as disapproval from conservatives
When TV became too commercial
Muhammad Ali shares with us his reading of Mirza Athar Baig's "Na-Mukammal (Putla) Kahani" and the context to it
In search of Tamil’s cousin in Pakistan
Ajay Kamalakaran on the tantalising linguistic link between a community in Balochistan and people in southern India
Punjabis beyond borders
Ammara Ahmad meets a trio of poets struggling to deal with the decline of Punjabi and the madness of hard ...
“It was sheer desire”
Kathak dancer and rising star Farah Yasmeen Shaikh talks to Ammara Ahmad about her early life, Guru Jee and Empress ...
Hope and spring erupt in Lahore
Ziyad Faisal is enthralled by this year's Nowruz festivities in Lahore
Waves of Culture in Lahore
From the Lahore Literary Festival to the First Lahore Biennale, and a people's herstory in between. By Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Ma Boli in Punjab
Ammara Ahmad on an event that emphasized that if Punjabi is to be saved from extinction, it must be taught ...
News and views which are not fit to print.
Govt Claims Zero Loadshedding On Feeders With 80pc Recovery
Minister for Power Khurrum Dastagir Khan has said...
Protest Demanding Recovery Of Missing Journalist Held In Lahore
Journalists and media organisations held a protest demonstration...