A more healthy diet?
My teenage niece living in Canada recently dropped a bombshell on us — she informed that she had turned vegetarian — overnight, as it were. She had always shown a preference for chicken over red meat, but...
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The pains of booking a car
The problems faced by genuine car buyers have been covered quite extensively in the print media for quite some time now. Much centres around the fact that for most car models,...
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A tale of prejudice
With emotion filled blue eyes and an almost quavering voice, Scottish filmmaker Kenny Glen-aan explains one of the reasons he made Yasmin, a touching story of prejudice suffered by British Muslims in the aftermath of September 11....
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Cultural diversity
Globalization has shrunken the entire world into a global village and has made just about everything accessible, but it has also given rise to fears and concerns regarding the preservation of a community’s or a nation’s cultural identity.....
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A treasure trove
A few minutes’ walk from Eiffel Tower takes one to Guimet which, with its 45,000 objects, is the world’s biggest museum of Asian art outside Asia, covering an era as vast in time (five millennia) as in area (from Pakistan to Japan)...
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Revealing secrets
There’s a way of telling your personality to others – your signature. Professional graphologists say that it can reveal as much as your handwriting does!...
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The hidden paradise
Azad Kashmir is known for the beauty of its landscape. Scenic valleys along the Rivers Neelum and Jhelum rival with any picturesque sites in the world....
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‘I just want to go home’
Abdullah Shah was herding his three much prized buffaloes into the forest to graze as I scrambled up the steep mountain path towards the road that morning. He had his huge catapult in one hand, a round stone in the other and a mischievous grin on his face as usual....
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When soft voices die
The most vivid memory is of her dressed in a Japanese print dressing gown putting damp strips of cloth on my feverish forehead while crooning a soft lullaby. I can still visualize the lines of worry etched on her face in spite of the fact that I was just seven,...
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Casual elegance
The most vivid memory is of her dressed in a Japanese print dressing gown putting damp strips of cloth on my feverish forehead while crooning a soft lullaby. I can still visualize the lines of worry etched on her face in spite of the fact that I was just seven,...
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Heartburn or hernia?
Q Please help. Last year the doctor told me I had acid reflux disease. From X-rays he learned that part of my stomach has gone into a hernia. Now my breathing is affected. What will eventually happen to me? I am scared....
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Search for a horticultural society
Q I am desperate to find Ceropegia woodi, but cannot locate it in any Islamabad nursery. Can you help me please? Perhaps someone living in the area has it and would like to exchange a plant with me....
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Mango fever
Ingredients
4 breast pieces cut into strips, grilled
Lettuce, to serve
For mango mixture
90 gms finely chopped mangoes
20 gms finely chopped onions
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Eight Days a Week
Dark, serious, mysterious, atmospheric ––– Batman Begins is exactly what a Batman movie should be. Even though people cite the Tim Burton directed Batman and Batman Returns as good movies they didn’t particularly work for me...
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