Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, the celebrated scion of the Patiala gharana [clan] of our classical music, did wonders when he took to
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What an actor, director, broadcaster and conversationalist Talat Hussain was, truly iconic in so many ways. Just the right pauses
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The British actor, director, playwright and critic Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) writes in one of his famous prefaces to...
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In early 2007 in London, there was a sombre evening when Prof Amin Mughal and I met, a few months after my father’s passing in...
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Since October 2023, the Israeli bombing in Gaza continues unabated. At the time of writing this piece, the official death toll of
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Muhammad Ziauddin was an exceptionally fine man, a courageous journalist and a watchful editor. We had known each other for many
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As autumn is edged away by winter in Islamabad, the 9th edition of the capital’s largest literary festival was organised by the...
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It was some time ago, when work related to community development would take me regularly to Multan, Bahawalpur, Layyah,...
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Besides being a distinguished fiction writer, with her debut novel Mass Transit published in 1998 and the latest, The Inn,...
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Like other developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, Pakistan also espouses an economic development model that
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That we make mistakes is true not just for the acquired languages we use — English and Persian, for instance — but also for when
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“In the short history of the growth of America, if you look closely, there has perhaps been one good and clever man, Lincoln...
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