Stories by Anwer Mooraj

Nostalgia: Those were the days

Life as a child in pre-war Berlin

Published 08 May, 2016 06:44am

Theatre: The playwright who made it big

A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters made a humble beginning, after which the playwright never looked back

Published 10 Apr, 2016 06:30am

The lessons and lads of St Peter's in Panchgani

I joined at the age of eight, in the early war years, and soon realised no boarding school in India was quite like it.

Updated 06 Mar, 2016 01:04pm

Karachi to Antwerp at 10 knots an hour

There were only four people at the wharf to see us off — Arnold’s parents and my parents.

Updated 25 Jan, 2016 11:50am

Once upon a time in Karachi

Instead of watching TV, people danced, were courteous and actually read newspapers.

Updated 10 Jan, 2016 11:36am

Nostalgia street: Elphi as it used to be

Anwer Mooraj reminisces about the cultural diversity of Karachi in the early days of the Partition.

Published 06 Dec, 2015 06:33am

Art fiend: The two faces of detail

In the contemporary world, with its fierce competition and bucketfuls of organic new age anxiety, all kinds of...

Published 09 Mar, 2014 08:54am

Exhibition: Daddy dearest

When I was in Saigon last February a chap who ran an art gallery showed me a painting which he described as a...

Published 23 Feb, 2014 08:18am

Art fiend: Post no bills

Toulouse-Lautrec made them and so did Andy Warhol. Since the dawn of the 20th century, when they first became ...

Published 26 Jan, 2014 07:39am

Karachi: Romance in ruins

Karachi has come a long, long way from 1946, when it was a tiny fishing village of around 300,000 inhabitants, to ...

Published 29 Dec, 2013 08:08am

Bookmark: The Euro Journey of Lailamah Giselle Khan

THIS is a remarkable little book where each new day brings a whirlwind of adventure, emotion, possibility and hope....

Published 28 Sep, 2013 07:02am

Art fiend: Two budding artists try to conquer space

Last Sunday a new art gallery called Spaces sprung up like ripened corn in the beleaguered city of Karachi. It was a...

Published 07 Jul, 2013 10:14am

Pop art: A trap without shackles

"Trapped" have produced a series of pictorial testimonials each of which comes with an exclamation mark.

Published 24 Jun, 2013 04:15pm

Poignant works: Somebody did eat the butterflies

It isn’t easy to describe the paintings by Muhammad Ali which are currently adorning the walls of Canvas Gallery, Karachi.

Published 12 May, 2013 05:10am

Art fiend: A fresh harvest and hoary old chestnuts

Last Monday, after a boiling sky discharged a wilderness of electricity, and the tension of traffic drooped into one long aimless scene of hooting horns on the street, I trampled through the early monsoon slush and

Published 28 Apr, 2013 08:33am

Art work: Paying homage through script

As a rule I do not review the works of a calligrapher. First, because I do not consider the genre as what is universally recognised as art, irrespective of how much embellishment is wrapped around the words. Second,

Published 31 Mar, 2013 07:41am

Exhibition: A tantalising switch

I would never miss an exhibition by Marium Khan, Her work has a wistful charm and an innocence which is fetching. The first exhibition of hers which I attended at the National Museum was in January 2010. I was at

Published 10 Feb, 2013 03:53am

Hitzlberger enthrals audience by playing Liszt

A selection made with perspicacity and compassion and piano playing of brilliance.

Published 11 Oct, 2012 06:50am

Jazz flavoured with Desi spice

KARACHI, Sept 21: As a hard-core devotee and enthusiast of both western and the subcontinental classical music, the only jazz that I occasionally enjoy is the sort that was played in the 1930s and 1940s in the United States.

Published 21 Sep, 2012 08:12pm

Tehran should make nuclear ship fuel: Tehran Website

A hypothetical fleet of nuclear-powered ships would be an additional justification to bolster Iran’s claim that it needs higher enrichment for peaceful purposes.

Published 17 Jul, 2012 04:07am