Half done
The coronavirus has put everything else on the back burner
Peerzada Salman
This week 50 years ago: Rains, KPC election and students’ walkout
IT was an eventful week, beginning with heavy monsoon showers disturbing city life. On July 6, 1970 the media...
‘Akbar had a progressive view of women’
Writer dissects the myths surrounding the Mughal emperor...
Imrana Maqsood shares why she wrote a book on husband Anwar Maqsood
A discussion based on her book 'Uljhay Suljhay Anwar' was held at T2F.
‘It’s not easy to live with a showbiz person’
Discussion held on book Uljhey Suljhey Anwar...
Tehzeeb Festival ends
KARACHI: The 11th Tehzeeb Festival, held online for the first time because of the situation arising out of the...
This week 50 years ago: Karachi back as capital of Sindh
IT was a momentous week for Sindh. From the mid-1950s to 1970 Karachi did not function as capital of Sindh because ...
11th Tehzeeb Festival kicks off online
The current (online) version of the festival was introduced as a creative response to what’s going on around us.
11th Tehzeeb Festival begins online
KARACHI: Although we now live in a technologically-driven world which might not always be something to boast about,...
‘Pandemic has brought marginalised communities to centre stage’
KARACHI: Three more eminent speakers shed light on ‘Climate change, cities and violence in the time of Covid-19:...
‘Climate change is creating new forms of injustice’
Experts discuss challenges climate change poses to urban environments in online workshop...
K-Electric, mercy
If someone has isolated himself/herself and if electricity disappears for hours, it can surely affect physical and mental health...
Politician, debater par excellence Faizi is no more
KARACHI: A prominent member of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and an excellent debater Dost Muhammad Faizi, who...
Bringing down the statues
There used to be an obelisk near the Native Jetty Bridge that reminded everyone of Napier’s rule. Where it went is anybody’s guess
This week 50 years ago: Commercialisation of Lyari and mob attack
HERE’S a measure of how benevolent as well as volatile Karachi has been in its post-independence days,...
Can parks be open during this pandemic?
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to reopen the parks where observance of SOPs can be ensured
What about the parks?
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to reopen the parks where observance of SOPs can be ensured.
‘The institution of slavery was so powerful that no slave could easily escape it’
Book on struggle against racism in US launched...
Poet and critic Sarwer Javed dies
KARACHI: Distinguished Urdu poet and critic Syed Sarwer Javed Rizvi, known as Sarwer Javed in literary circles, died...
There’s no change without acceptance of global situation, says Deepak Chopra
‘Science can be both divine and diabolical’