April 18, 2002

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Mothers’ depression The arrival of a baby in the family is usually an event full of joy and happiness, but for some women this may be the start of an illness called postnatal depression. What exactly is postnatal depression, or PND?....		A family affair To be very honest, before writing the article on postnatal depression, I was under the impression that it only existed in severe forms. To my surprise, it dawned on me (as...
Sofa, so good WHILE flipping through a magazine, I can’t remember if it was the New Left Review or Good Housekeeping, I read that your home reflects who you are. (Just double checked and it wasn’t an article by Tariq Ali on decorating tips for the cheap communist.) So I went home, had a quick look around my room and panicked....		Net match Much as people hate to admit it, tens of thousands of Pakistanis are addicted to the Internet. And, if you are thinking that they are indulging their addiction by reading The Economist, on line, you could not be more ignorant about them....
Fundamentally flawed To me, writing for film is no different to writing for any other form. It is the telling of stories, only on celluloid. However, you are writing for a director and then for actors. Economy is usually the point; one objective of film-writing is to make...		The shores of Karachi There is an excitement to water and the multitude of enjoyment it offers that strikes a deep resonant chord in all of us. Perhaps it is the sense of freedom in venturing out into the open water, what Earnest Hemingway called “the last wild...
Which Pakistani personality are you? Ever taken a personality quiz in Cosmo, GQ, or Seventeen, but felt that the choices didn’t really match you? It could be because those quizzes aren’t really geared to the Pakistani...		Homage to the Creole Goddess On April 13, 1975, I was enjoying a cup of hot chocolate in a caf#e on a boulevard not far from the Church of the Madelaine in Paris, when I noticed people started to pour in from all sides, until it became almost impossible to move....
In a world of their own As Madan, a 55-year-old malang, bearded with long moustaches and a saffron coloured turban on his head, tolled the bell in Hayat Pitafi Darbar, he felt elated. “I come here ...		Macular degeneration Q :My mother had macular degeneration, and the last years of her life were made less pleasant because of it. I do not want to come down with it. What can...
Light at the end of the tunnel They call it white water. And 10-year- old Barkat Ali has lived with it all his life. He knows it better than the mighty Indus River that flows through this part of Sindh province bringing life to an otherwise arid plain....		Eight Days A Week FILM If you missed last year’s hit, Evolution, now is the chance to get it. Films are getting wackier by the day — the more bizarre it is the more appreciated it is by the viewer and film-makers alike....
POST MARK: Greener pastures THE cover story on various career options showed that though the government has initiated few steps, there is still a lot to be done. There is need to form new...		An exclusive affair After a long time a restaurant has opened up in the city that one can truly recommend on all counts of ambience, service and quality of food. If there is anything...