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Slowly but cautiously Veterans of any institution imbue its culture in their personalities. Ali Rizvi is a veteran PTV producer with almost 30 years of plays and serials, which include quite a few hits,...		Music on a hill Classical arts survive on patronage and sponsorship. The sudden revival of classical music, if it can be called that, in Karachi has proven that what was needed was a little patronage...
Why some musicians self-destruct They asked me to write this piece about “self-destruction and its place in rock.” That immediately set me to thinking: what do they mean exactly when they invoke the phrase self-destruction?...		A maestro remembered The tranquil night, the balmy breeze, the distant, glimmering stars and the safe environs (which have now become a must) of a golf club transformed the weary Karachiites present into a...
STARBUZZ: Aaminah: l’amore... The catch of the year has to be Ammar Bilal, the brain behind an up-and-coming designer label and the scion of a famous knit-wear tycoon. Besides this introduction, he also shares...		A medieval tryst Though pop culture has limited the world’s view of Italy to Mafiosi, pasta and fast cars, there is a lot more than meets the eye to this historic country. Italy has...
REVIEWSPREVIEWS: Hidalgo Hidalgo is a coloured horse and Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) is his rider. A master horseman, the wounds of his past keep haunting him, especially the massacre of Wounded Knee,...		Style Asia A fashion show was held to coincide with the Asia Board of Investment Conference (BOAO) held recently in China. Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali represented Pakistan at the conference, which...
MUSICBOX: Metal militia Mizraab are one of the few local outfits which have consciously tried to sound different from the pop herd. With their debut album Mazi Haal Mustaqbil (technically their second), guitarist Faraz...		On the comeback trail Interviewing Beena Benjamin is a free trip down memory lane to simpler times, when PTV was omnipotent, audiences were easy to please and whatever was aired, registered. Apropos 2004: she breaks...