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It’s an old script THE play is old. So, also, is the script. It dates back to Pericles of the ancient Athens. Over the ages, some lines have changed, some deleted, and some added. The stage has shifted from place to place. Old players faded away to nether regions....		Feminism: then and now I AM a feminist of the 1960s. I had never labelled myself that way. But a remark by a young colleague has set me thinking. “She is a feminist of the ‘60s” she had said, referring to a well-known figure of my generation. “Her thoughts and ideas are typical of the women....
On receiving the computerized card HUMAN nature is such that things received after a long wait or a person seen after a long time, give you inexpressible joy....		Can Karachi have a real Basant festival? THE idea of a Basant festival in Karachi on the lines of the increasingly popular event in Lahore with its high-flying kites by day and exuberant nightly dancing has been mooted...
The calm that followed the fury I HAD left India, an old country, in June, 1947, for the United States of America and had returned to Pakistan, a new country, in November, 1953. By the end...		Tobacco companies targeting the poor “THERE is not a drop of water in our village and we are fetching water from another village which is one kilometre away from us. There is no work for our...
Of hides and skinning LAHORE has just emerged from the annual battle between religious and social organizations for securing hides of animals sacrificed on Eid-ul-Azha. The event took place, as always, on the streets of...		Travels in Moorish Spain CENTURIES after the fall of the last Moorish enclave of Granada in 1492, it is said that the descendants of Spanish Muslims living in the Moroccan cities of Faiz and Marrakesh...
Cupid strikes the Capital IF St. Valentine was still alive, he would have been a millionaire just by accepting royalty fee for the intellectual rights of coming up with Valentine’s Day....		Pentagon’s Operation Dupe botched before birth! AMERICA’S friends and foes alike were soon to be suckered (if they haven’t already) into buying phony stories peddled by Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence (OSI). The Orwellian outfit, headed...
Where have our laughs gone? GONE are the days when laughing ones head off did not use to be a big deal. When people sat together and talked incessantly for hours and always got up refreshed....		Developing tourism WHILE contribution of tourism to the economies of Asian and Pacific countries is becoming increasingly evident, to harness tourism’s potential fully, these countries need to formulate policies and strategies to develop...
The end of the hero DR Farman Fatepuri says no ancient language is without tales in rhyme and, what is more, they share many episodes. He believes these episodes probably have their origin in the common myths of certain groups that then split and spread out. The vigour of such tales is in inverse relation to man’s mastery over nature....		Survival language: is it enough? MOST educated Pakistanis know two languages — English and Urdu — neither of which do they profit from as they should. Judging by the small number of students taking the ‘O’...
Why Jinnah joined Congress JINNAH made his political debut at the all-India level, as a delegate to the Calcutta (1906) Congress (INC) and Private Secretary to its President, Dadabhoy Naoroji (1825-1917), in December 1906. This...		From a grand old critic ... to Hasan Rizvi I INTENDED to write on Prof Aal-i-Ahmad Suroor when the grand old man of Urdu criticism passed away. He belonged to that bygone generation of critics who had made their...
So far, so good! IT IS a Hockey carnival down here in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, where everybody who is anybody in the world of hockey happens to be around and having a...		Curtain falls, but only partially THE curtain finally came down on an illustrious career when Allan Donald limped off the ground for the umpteenth time in recent years. In the absence of Shaun Pollock, he had to carry the burden of fast bowling against the Australians in the first Test...
For the dead cannot choose THROAT surgery had forced me to intravenous feeding, and I went to bed that night in much pain. I had difficulty in snatching some slumber. A little portion of the night still remained when I had a heart-warming dream. I dreamed...		Traumatized Afghans FAUZIA sits barefoot on a cold hospital floor, pinned to a place where feet and wheels hurry back and forth in a mad rush to stitch wounds, soothe pain and save lives. Her pain, she says between sobs, cannot be calmed. Surrounded by stench and disease...
Chains of misery FREEDOM is borne through time upon the wings of the innocent. What is freedom but the souls of children playing in the gardens of life...and where is that freedom when wars...		An insensitive remark I WAS shocked to read Anjum Niaz referring to the New York Times as the ‘Jew York Times’ in her revived column Scene and Heard (Feb 23), and even more shocked...
MOSAIC: Elemental fun AIR FIRE, water and earth. Four elements to which visitors to Magna, the United Kingdom’s first science adventure centre, can get close. This hugely popular attraction offers people of all ages...		Newsmaker THE death last week of Chuck Jones made even the cold and cut-throat world of showbiz shed a few tears, for Chuck was an energetic man of many friends. Age was no bar for him. And it was with this zest and dedication that Chuck Jones...