Review of Indian Movie 'Jab We Met'
posted by Soniah Kamal ‘Jab We Met’ (2007) is a prime example of an Indian movie meshing traditional and modern India in its characters but coming off confused. Poor little rich boy Aditya (played...
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The House of Bilquis: Tales of Pakistani Diaspora
From the Wall Street Journal By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG In Azhar Abidi’s new novel, “The House of Bilqis,” the Pakistani-born author raises a series of difficult questions: What are the consequences of...
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An Article On Tahira Mazhar Ali
I recently came across this brilliant feature by Shehar Bano Khan on Tahira Mazhar Ali – Tariq Ali’s mother and Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan’s daughter. It is a very interesting account coming from the...
View ArticleOur Free and Independent Judiciary!
By YLH The Supreme Court has proved yet again that it is independent and free… independent of any check by law and free of all rational sense. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the the...
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Diana: A Film Review
Review by Ras H. Siddiqui Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s movie “Diana” is an ambitious film, one which might face initial viewer reservations because many in our generation still have vivid memories of...
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Debunking myths by ‘heart’…
Hamzah Rifaat ‘Delhi By Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani traveler’, by Raza Rumi, an Islamabad based policy analyst and writer, is a fascinating read. The book dwells into the intricacies of cultural...
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Venkat Dhulipala’s “Creating a New Medina”– a dishonest polemic
By Yasser Latif Hamdani Venkat Dhulipala’s book is not an academic work. It is a polemic with footnotes. The effort Dhulipala has put into distorting the facts surrounding partition and especially...
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منٹو کو فرق نہیں پڑتا
تحریر: سید علی رضا حال ہی میں سرمد کھوسٹ کی فلم منٹو نے باکس آفس میں تہلکہ مچایا۔ کم بجٹ سے بننے والی اس فلم نے ہر جگہ حیرت انگیز طور پر بہت ہی زبردست کامیابی حاصل کی۔ ابتدائی ہفتہ پروڈیوسر کی امیدوں...
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Gul-e-Raana: Episodic Disappointments
Mahwish Badr I have been watching Gul-e-Raana, the Hum TV play. It had a lot of good ratings and I began watching with high hopes but the play really didn’t live up to a lot of hopes that I had had....
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