February 3, 2005

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Let’s go fly a kite BASANT used to be a quiet affair not too long ago. Kite flying this time of the year was a common site but it was hardly of festival proportions. It was mostly the young who flew them and they did it for fun. Some groups of people who took pride in their expertise in kite flying, regarded it as a serious sport and competed with each other in the open field that was once known as Manto Park....		Hating baby brother I was untroubled by friends’ horror stories of how the precious firstborn reacts to the news of an interloper. (“I hate you, Mummy, and I hate your baby and when it’s born I’m going to throw it into the traffic and kill it.”)...
A fruit from the heavens The fig is the most discussed fruit in the Bible. According to Biblical literature a fig tree provided the first clothing to mankind. The fig plant is mentioned in the Quran, along with olives, grapes, pomegranate and dates....		Chilling out Winters have arrived in Pakistan with a capital W, and the residents of the twin cities, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, are now learning an alternate meaning to the term ‘chilling out’. As the mercury level dropped lower over the Eid holidays, the festive occasion was spent shuttling...
An intriguing kaleidoscope Just as the electronic media could not end the charm of books, machine-made products, prints and designs how so ever beautiful, it could never create the intricate beauty that hands produce....		A restored monument During the reigns of ruler Babar (1526-30) and successor Humayun (1530-40, 1555-56) Lahore’s share of Mughal legacy was limited. The only monument of the period worth mentioning is the Baradari of...
Eating life away In today’s world the idea of beauty is being bone thin, which most people are incapable of accomplishing through a normal healthy diet. This is espoused by skinny models, singers, and actresses seen on television and billboards....		At a loss for words Here I am sitting in front of my PC while the flickering cursor on the blank document mocks me. “You imbecile, the one thing you’re supposed to be reasonably good at and even that has deserted you. Hah! So much for that writing career you slogged for during those laborious years at Karachi...
How late is ‘late’? We Pakistanis, when in Pakistan, are notorious for doing nothing on time — or almost nothing. Is it because we cannot, or do not wish to?...		Virtually blind Q: I have an eye condition called blepharospasm. For about four years I had Botox injections, but I have become immune to it. Is there any other remedy?...
A royal tree Listed as a herb by the Royal Horticultural Society in London, as a dangerous pest by a large number of environmental agencies and its planting completely banned by some governments, the Eucalyptus family of trees and shrubs is still, in my humble opinion, a welcome plant in even the smallest of gardens....		Eight Days a Week I generally like vampire movies but Blade: Trinity, the third in the series based on the Marvel Comics character and starring Wesley Snipes, is a disappointment. The first movie about the vampire hunter was just okay but the second, directed by horror-meister Guillermo Del Toro, was actually a pretty exciting, atmospheric flick with lots of cool and spooky moments....