Music sans frontiers

By GEETA NANDAKUMAR Song of the soul Farida Khanum ‘Aaj jaane ki zid na karo, haaye mar jaayenge ham to lut jaaenge, aisii baatein…

Picasso on indifference

My dear friend Isa D, has refreshed the memory of this fabulous quote from Pablo Picasso. This quote is extremely pertinent to the current…

Amjad Islam Amjad on the imperative of hard work. A message for the youth of Pakistan.

‘The day you stop working hard, someone else will replace you’: Amjad Islam Amjad talks about the keys to success. He says continuous effort…

Theater not only entertains you but also convinces you to think says Renowned actress Samiya mumtaz

Renowned actress Samiya mumtaz discusses the importance of theater in Pakistan and it’s future. NayaDaur media asked actress Samiya Mumtaz that how important theater…

Music: Tabla master Sandeep Das & Kayhan Kalhor

Tabla master Sandeep Das joins multiple Grammy nominee and co-founder of Masters of Persian Music Kayhan Kalhor following their March D.C. appearance with Silk…

Portfolio: Local yet global

Recently, Aicon Gallery in York exhibited Monomania the first solo US exhibition of Karachi-based artist Adeel uz Zafar. The title of the exhibition summed…

Saadat Hasan Manto- Writer of Stark Realities

Saadat Hassan Manto (May 11, 1912 – January 18, 1955) was a Pakistani Urdu short story writer, most known for his Urdu short stories…

Heart to Heart: Remembering Naina Devi

My dear friend Vidya Rao’s labour of love is finally out. She has been working on this project for quite a while. Her book…

Faiz Ahmad Faiz: 1974 Interview from Radio Pakistan Archives

Faiz Ahmad Faiz In Program Fun aur Funkar = Panalist Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, Hameed Akhtar, Qayyum Nazar, Sajjad Baqar Rizvi, Anees Nagi, Intizar…

Rebel Angel: An exhibition at Mohatta Palace Museum -starts May 18, 2011

REBEL ANGEL ASIM BUTT 1978-2010 Mohatta Palace Museum is hosting an exhibition of works by the late artist Asim Butt, commencing on Wednesday May…

Seven artists in Delhi: Gigi Scaria – video

Tim Hinman, Source: third ear The first of seven films looking at Indian artists’ responses to the city of Delhi features Gigi Scaria, a sculptor…

Karachi Literature Festival 2011 Programme

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE All set for the 2nd Karachi Literature Festival Karachi (31 January 2011): The 2nd Karachi Literature Festival is all set to…

GulJee – what was the harm to you if you had lived a little longer!

Jahane Rumi is priveleged to publish this exclusive piece contributed by Syed Naveed Abbas It is the month of December and one’s heart weeps…

Mehdi Hasan: The Man & His Music

But this has been our tragic tradition. Our greatest artists, singers, poets and intellectuals have suffered at the hands of a conformist society and…

Saadat Hasan Manto – part II

After partition of India Saadat Hassan Manto arrived in Lahore sometime in early 1948. In Bombay his friends had tried to stop him from…

Jaipur, Faiz and Ali Sethi

Ali Sethi recently attended the Jaipur literary festival and his extraordinary performance is now accessible to those who were not there. I should thank…

Farewell, Asim

Dear Asim: you left us in such a hurry – you will be missed, always..RIP Asim Butt: A rebel from his conventional background, Butt…

The tender tea house

I was quite pleased to read this piece. Aside from fact that it talks about me, the constant rememberance of Pak Tea House is…

Coffee, tea and revolution

Before his death in July 2009, KK Aziz had accomplished one mission that he had set for himself, i.e. to write about the Lahore…

Fahmida Riaz – “Her dreams of the future”

Barricaded Islamabad enveloped by the ghosts of national gloom has one little corner of hope. The Pakistan Academy of Letters, under its dynamic and…
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