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Noble Pakistan: 10 Pakistanis honoured with Ramon Magsaysay Award
For most people, an award can be a source of confidence, encouragement or pride. But for the nine selfless Pakistanis, who have been honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award, this prestigous feather in...
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Riders for a cause: Taking the high road
How do you get people to sit up and take notice of basic issues, such as health, education or human rights, when even the most devastating of conflicts have a shelf life of a few hours? You take your...
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Book review: From Volga to Ganga - time travel
If there was ever a book that I wish I had discovered in my youth, it would be Rahul Sanskrityayan’s From Volga to Ganga — a vivid account of the evolution of civilisation in the subcontinent. The...
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Book review: Army and Democracy - the balancing act
Considering the ongoing anti-government agitation, Aqil Shah’s book, The Army and Democracy, is likely to attract a large number of readers. The book gives an in-depth analysis of civil-military...
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Art: Where angels fail to tread
Rebel Angel, a posthumous monograph featuring Asim Butt’s art practices, is a work-in-progress that gives an orientation of the artist’s body of work but lacks chronology. The editor, Nafisa Rizvi,...
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Vitamin D deficiency: Sun kissed
Too much exposure to the sun can harm your hair and skin but too little of it can lead to a lack of vitamin D in the body. Also known as the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D is not only essential for...
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Résumé: One size does not fit all
What a predicament it can be to sum up all your qualifications, experiences and accolades in a page (or two) while walking that fine line between sounding accomplished or risk coming off pretentious....
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Karachi's hidden treasures: City pleasures
If you really want to get to know someone, take long walks with them. Sit across them and read a book. Share a meal. Listen to their words and also their silence. Getting to know a place, or a city,...
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Muslim Jewish Conference: The ghosts of Mauthausen
Nearly 140 of us stood in a loose circle inside a concrete room on the last day of the week-long Muslim Jewish Conference — a platform where young Muslim and Jewish leaders from around the globe get...
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Movie review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - crawling back into their shell
Since their introduction as comic book characters in the 1980s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have become a pop culture phenomenon. Known for their ninjutsu skills and love for pizza, the...
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Art: Ordered chaos
German philosopher Walter Benjamin believes that everything beautiful in art can be ‘ascribed to the realm of beautiful semblance’, or a pleasing outward appearance. Abdullah M.I. Syed, artist and...
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Movie review: The November Man - a forgotten November
Espionage thrillers have kept cinema audiences hooked since the advent of the art form itself. It was in 1928 when German filmmaker, Fritz Lang wrote the current thematic and visual vernacular of spy...
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iPhone: No appetite for Apple?
Just last week, hundreds of Apple fans across the world waited with bated breath for the release of the iPhone 6. This love for iPhones, however, seems to have skipped Pakistan. Although there are no...
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Al-Fahidi Fort: Sifting through Dubai’s past
When you see Dubai’s glitz and glamour, it is hard to believe that this ultramodern metropolis grew out of dust in just 25 years. In search of the soul of this magnificent city I found myself at the...
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Depression: The enemy within
A common reaction to feeling blue is equating it to depression. What most people fail to realise, however, is that by doing so one ends up trivialising one of the most debilitating mental diseases in...
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Floods in Kashmir: Banking on help
When the banks of the River Jhelum were breached last week, a wave of floods wreaked havoc in Indian-administered Kashmir. Over 200 people have lost their lives while thousands of others are trapped...
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Toy collection: Plastic crack
The euphoria of a newly acquired shiny toy may be hard to explain to someone who is alien to the feeling. They may question its utility, raise their eyebrows at the high prices and even sound...
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Movie review: God’s Pocket - too big for these shoes
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death in February this year had thousands of fans lamenting his profound loss to the world. It ignited a discussion on the pervasiveness of addictive substances like cocaine...
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Movie review: The Hundred Foot Journey - food for the soul
In The Hundred Foot Journey, the protagonists and the audience will both embark on a journey. You will laugh, smile, wonder and be immersed in the surroundings of a picturesque small town in the...
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Book review: A Charismatic Leader - Jinnah Revisited
One might question why we need another book on Jinnah. But the distinct format and approach in Sikandar Hayat’s latest addition to the subject, A Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah...
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