COVER STORY: Embedded media coverage
One image has perhaps best encapsulated the Western media coverage of the attack on Iraq. With the BBC camera mounted on the turret of an American Abrams tank...
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You’ve lost that loathing feeling
Three very dear friends just got dumped in a span of a week and are in that awful self-loathing place. No amounts of reassurances, double chocolate fudge cake or Sex and...
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In the slaughterhouse
Pakistan’s biggest slaughterhouse is truly in shambles and continues to work in an informal manner. The conditions at the slaughterhouse are appalling and highly unhygienic....
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The view from Jeddah
Jeddah is hardly a two-hour flight from where I am stationed. I have been to the Red Sea city many times since Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family landed there....
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Fighting deception
Ordinary women are discovering a potent way of supporting their gender by sharing their experiences of sacrifice and difficulty....
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Backstage passes
The world will have to wait to watch the second Lux Style Awards on television. The grand awards were a closed affair, ostensibly a result of the war on Iraq. Nonetheless...
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Feeding the foetus
Many of us must have experienced tragic, painful and unfortunate moments by coming across infants or young children incapable of either seeing, hearing, listening, moving or all of these abnormalities....
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Fever pitch
There are no poisonous snakes on Hampstead Heath. We have flashers, pit-bulls, determined sex cruisers and suicide-joggers, but not snakes....
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Living with congestive heart failure
Q: When I sit, I breathe fine. When I walk, l am quickly out of breath. l have the same trouble when I lie down in bed. Some nights...
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Power vacation
Most people are familiar with the term “power nap”, but recently, four women (including yours truly) coined another term that has the same effect on a person, except that sleep does not figure as an ingredient in it at all —“power vacation”....
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EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
Okay, I admit it. I laughed more than I should have while watching Rob Schneider’s (The Animal, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo) latest bad-taste-fest, The Hot Chick....
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Summer drinks
Ingredients:
2 tbsp strawberry or plain yogurt (available in the market)
1 tbsp drinking chocolate
4-5 whole fresh strawberries (washed and top removed)...
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