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DISEASE AND DEVELOPMENT
Although Gujrat is seeing many uplift projects of late, unplanned urbanisation has given birth to an extraordinary rise
TRAVEL: RELIVING A HIPPIE TRIP
A foreigner takes a low-budget tour of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the footsteps of hippies who visited the region in the
ARTSPEAK: BEYOND THE GENDER BINARY
From 1954 to 1999, the advertisement of the Marlborough man — a rugged, lean cowboy smoking a cigarette — became...
DISCOURSE: PAINTING A NEW WORLD
The challenges facing the painting genre in the age of new media
BIENNALE: PAKISTAN CREATES SPACE IN VENICE
Pakistan displays its first-ever national pavilion in Venice that celebrates unity and mutuality of liminal spaces
SOCIETY: DEALINGS OF LIFE AND DEATH
The sale of human organs continues on the black market despite stringent laws.
STYLE: IT’S A WRAP!
Tie your hair up with a bandana or use it as a scarf, it’s a fashion statement
CLIFTONIA: A TEST-AMENT TO HISTORY
It’s exam time for the uncivil services
EPICURIOUS: RIP ANTHONY BOURDAIN, THE GONZO CHEF
A tribute to the celebrity master chef who passed away on June 8.
GARDENING: ‘WHY IS MY ROSE BUSH DECAYING?’
All your gardening queries answered
ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI
‘I can’t stand the toxic relationship I have with my wife’
SMOKERS’ CORNER: WHO WILL GET KARACHI’S VOTES?
The MQM has a lot at stake in claiming electoral supremacy in its home turf
ENVIRONMENT: PINING FOR THE PAST
A lament on how urban development has wreaked havoc on the once pristine hill town of Abbottabad
X-SQUARE: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
The ‘high’ at Lord’s and the ‘low’ at Headingley have to be put together to make sense of what a Pakistani outfit is
FOOTBALL: HEROES AND VILLAINS
Rarely has a football World Cup been devoid of controversy.
DEVELOPING FATA: WHERE ARE THE FUNDS?
The merger has happened but the euphoria is short-lived as practical concerns come to the fore.
TURNING THE GRASS GREEN
In the absence of funds needed to redevelop FATA, policymakers need to turn to indigenous solutions
ESSAY: A SENSE OF LITERATURE
To delve into literature, actors have to develop a taste for reading
FICTION: A TOUCH OF MADNESS
A novel that deftly combines the daunting reality of day-to-day life in a war-torn city with a hint of self-deprecating
CONTEMPORARY VOICES
Ali Baba Taj is a distinguished Urdu, Hazargi and Persian poet. He is the author of a collection of poems titled...
NARRATIVE ARC: RESISTANCE AND THE ELITES
The elites in our society have the ability to first co-opt and then eulogise icons of resistance once the brand of...
FICTION: SPECTRUM OF TALES
A new collection of short stories prioritises quality over quantity and the result is nothing short of heartwarming
ALEXI PICKS
BOOKS THAT TRANSFORM HOW WE THINK
A phrase often rolled out by reviewers is that a book ‘holds up a mirror to our...
COLUMN: ODOUR OF SANCTITY
The air that we breathe is axiomatic for something taken for granted. But smells are potent and important, affecting...
NON-FICTION: BIASED BARRIERS
Bryan W. Van Norden’s book is a significant landmark on the road to exposing philosophy’s Euro-American bias
THE ICON INTERVIEW: THE DOYENNE OF FASHION
Maheen Khan doesn’t mince her words. She doesn’t need to. She understands fashion when so many others don’t.
SOUNDSCAPE: FROM KOREA, WITH LOVE
South Korean boy band BTS makes history by becoming the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 chart
THE GRAPEVINE
This is significant. One of India’s biggest, if not the biggest, film production houses, Yash Raj Films (YRF), has
CINEMASCOPE: NIGHTMARE AT SEA
Adrift is a by-the-numbers lost-at-sea drama, which is exactly the opposite of what a film of this genre needs
SOUNDCHECK: THE BYRNE YEARS
David Byrne on his first solo album, American Utopia, his bonkers new tour and whatever happened to that giant suit
THE TUBE
Cookery show star, wonderful wife and bahu Maham (Nadia Khan) has a booming career, but her greedy and chauvinistic
SPOTLIGHT: YOUNG GUNS OF MUSIC
Despite overwhelming challenges, young musicians continue to work on albums quite simply because they love the craft.
SPOTLIGHT: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LOVE
7 Din Mohabbat In is as star-studded a film as they come. Icon sits down with the cast and directors of the movie to get
SCREEN: THE GOOFY JATTA
In Carry On Jatta 2 everything is loud and in-your-face, and yet, somehow infectiously funny
THE TUBE
Drama at its peak. Khaani’s (Sana Javed) husband Arham (Mohammed Ali) visits Mir Hadi (Feroz Khan) in jail and gives him
THE ICON INTERVIEW: A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE
Rimal Ali is making her big screen debut with the eagerly awaited film 7 Din Mohabbat In. The actress opens up about her
FLASHBACK: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
If it had not been for film songs, Urdu and its poetry would not have reached the masses
THE ICON INTERVIEW: THE LEGEND CONTINUES
Arguably the biggest living star of Pakistani cinema is also its most humble and still fighting fit at 76.
SCREEN: FUN UNDER THE SUN
It’s a super summer for movies
THE GRAPEVINE
Pop star Atif Aslam is all set to shoot a video in Los Angeles for his upcoming song Baarish. The girl that he and the
CINEMASCOPE: STAR STRUCK
Solo: A Star Wars Story may have performed below expectations at the box office. But the film itself is immensely
Eid, a celebration of blessings
Ah! Eid is here! Eid Mubarak friends! What a beautiful morning the Eid day brings.
Mailbox
This is regarding the cover story, “The peculiar box” by Aneeqa Naveed (YW, June 2).
Poet's Corner
Published in Dawn, Young World, June 15th, 2018
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