My painting – “Raheem and Kareem”
Rahim & Karim – Acrylic on canvas – 12″ x 18″ This is a small painting that I created in December 2007. I wanted…
Loving or Hating Arundhati Roy?
Cross-posted from drunkonink blog. Soniah Kamal’s thoughtful write-up is worth sharing here: Saba Bhaumik’s opinion piece in Outlook India once again attempts to explain…
Tortured land
When I breathe, I feel guilty Guilty because she can breathe no more When I think, I feel guilty Guilty because she can think…
Aaj Kay Mouzu – Behjat Gilani, Urdu VOA
Was at the Urdu VOA program Aaj Kay Mouzu with Behjat Gilani, spoke about Israel-Palestine issue.…
Mazhub – a voice for peaceful South Asia
In 2006, I read this brilliant poem by Brijinder”Sagar (found here on Adnan’s brilliant site). I had kept it with me for an adequate…
Prophet Mohammed And The Mystics
Written by Sadia Dehlvi Prophet Mohammed was born on a Monday, the twelfth night of Rabi ul awwal in Mecca in the year 570…
Public Art from Karachi
Amina Baig writes for The NEWS: When driving through the jungle of buildings, complicated maze of cars and billboards mushrooming around the Karachi skyline;…
Amit Baruah – Dateline Islamabad
From the DAWN: AMIT Baruah is one of those Indians who have a soft corner for Pakistan and are thus genuinely interested in the…
Finding a long lost friend
KM and I have known each other for ages. There were days when we were at school and the height of excitement of pre-globalized…
Journeying into mysticism (noted as one the best articles of 2007)
Indian Muslims Blog is now two years old. The IM team have compiled the best articles published at the blog in 2007. Shameless as…
Shaheen Sultan Dhanji’s art
Bordering between abstract and socio-political, Shaheen Sultan Dhanji’s photography, painting and writings are at once striking to readership. Her art transforms the humble into…
Not again –
Sometime back I had written a piece on the Kafkaesque nature of our history. The recent events though not altogether unexpected nor peculiar reminded…
Ghazali and The Arabian Nights
Khaled Ahmed in a recent review writes: The scholar fears that his own religious validity may be destroyed through political contact. The king is…
Wazir Khan Mosque – Lahore
It took us a an hour of navigating through the unruly traffic of Lahore to get to the old city. This was ostensibly a…
M F Hussain’s exhibition raises hackles of Bajrang Dal
The India International Centre, where Hussain’s ‘Mughal India’ painting series are on dispaly, suspended the exhibition for Saturday after it received the threats from…
Abida Sings Shah Latif Bhitai
Naveed Siraj has sent the captioned audio link. The track is originally by Ustaad Manzoor Ali Khan who belongs to the Gwaliar Gharana. The…
I finally moved here – “You lack a foot to travel?”
Moving from the wordpress blog is proving to be more excruciating than I had thought. In addition, being technically challenged does not help either.…
Spare the Animal and Show Your Piety: Eid ul Adha, 2007
I am cross-posting this thoughtful post by temporal that was published at the Pak Tea House: Eid ul Adha is on or around December…
Tear down this house
by Ayeda Naqvi Yes, our houses are under attack. But as we so desperately cling to the old form, eager to preserve and retain…
Noor Jehan Singing
This soulful poem by Faiz was rendered by Madame Noor Jehan in her early, melodious years. Manto has also mentioned this rendition in his…