From 1954 to 1999, the advertisement of the Marlborough man — a rugged, lean cowboy smoking a cigarette — became... Published Jun 15, 2018 07:08am

Legend has it that the peacock, the most beautiful of birds, cries in anguish when it glances down at its ugly feet.... Published Jun 03, 2018 07:06am

In my quest to discover the origins of the exquisite tiles in my aunt’s home in Karachi’s old settlement Amil... Published May 20, 2018 07:09am

An exhibition investigates displacement in the wake of aggressive urbanisation Published May 13, 2018 07:20am

In the last chapter of his book The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple gives a harrowing account of a massacre parallel... Published Apr 29, 2018 07:16am

“0 to 60 in Five Seconds;” “Drive it Like You Stole it;” “Lose Your Innocence in 3.9 Seconds” — these... Published Apr 08, 2018 06:48am

Every so often we see a Banyan sapling growing at an impossible location high up on a tall building, like a poet... Published Mar 11, 2018 06:55am

The posters I grew up with were the wonderful psychedelic pop art posters of the 1960s and ’70s. They were ... Published Feb 25, 2018 07:11am

The first time I realised that gypsies were not just characters in a film but real people was as a child when my... Published Feb 11, 2018 07:57am

The basti kids in front of my mother’s house have become avid snooker players, except the snooker table is a cloth... Published Jan 28, 2018 07:33am

Another academic year is about to begin. The number of young people wanting to study art and design is growing. ... Published Jan 14, 2018 08:24am

One rarely sees landscape paintings in art galleries. Landscape painting was always less about documenting... Published Dec 31, 2017 07:05am

Called ‘a space in between’, balconies are both public and private, and a connection with the world outside for women Updated Dec 24, 2017 06:52am

During a recent lecture I gave on the role of art and literature in Pakistani society, a gentleman asked what we... Published Dec 03, 2017 08:22am

Knowledge is often formally divided into the sciences and humanities — as if one can exist without the other —... Published Nov 19, 2017 09:24am

Iqbal Bhai Chamakpattiwala was putting the finishing touches on the tram he had decorated in the style of the W11 ... Published Oct 15, 2017 07:11am

A family friend Katja Neuburger, who escaped to London from a German concentration camp, briefly housed the... Published Oct 01, 2017 04:25am

In a time when expediency often takes precedence over morality, we overlook how much of our daily activity is based... Published Sep 10, 2017 08:38am

Shall we remember? Shall we forget? Shall we look to the future? Shall we bring along the past? They tell us we need... Published Aug 27, 2017 07:53am

Every human is 99.5 percent genetically identical to any other human. It is that 0.5 percent that makes each person... Updated Aug 14, 2017 11:40am