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Lights, camera, action! The fourth Karafilm festival is over. And it was the best one yet, though perhaps the next time they could price the tickets cheaper and have volunteers who understand that when...		Tuning in to kids On every second Sunday of December thousands of children around the world celebrate the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB). Broadcasters “tune in to kids” by allowing them to be a...
Lining up for Oscars With the Oscars, timing is everything. Peak too early, and your momentum peters out before the ballots are sent out in January. Peak too late and nobody pays any attention. The...		Noor Jehan’s immortal melodies She sang her swan-song for Sakhi Badshah, a Punjabi movie released in 1997 and then Noor Jehan, the Melody Queen, gave her last bow on the stage of South Asian music on December 23, 2000....
The complete festival This year, at the World Performing Arts Festival held in Lahore and arranged by the Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop from November 27 to December 7, the Indians made a sweeping victory...		East meets East The fashion melie-cum-society ball, Lux Carnival de Couture 2004, slated as “a glittering ensemble of global high fashion” created a buzz at a private space in Karachi, and presented the show-stopping...
MUSICBOX Without a doubt, Guns’n’Roses were one group every self-respecting, flannel wearing, Nirvana-listening ‘alternative’ kid who grew up in the Nineties loved to hate....		REVIEWSPREVIEWS The year 1973’s Exorcist (starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller in Oscar-nominated performances) was a movie of its own class, and the cult it gave birth to is mushrooming to date. Its prequel, however, fails to etch its mark....