Poetry
A Strange Problem? by Kunwar Narain Adieu Naguib Mahfouz Blake Golden Sufi Hafiz-e Shirazi Omar Khayyam Poet Seers Poet Seers Rumi Poet of the…
Journalism
Ahmed Rashid’s Website Guardian Independent UK Khalid Hasan Online Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism Robert Fisk Svaradarajan Tariq Ali Tariq Rahman’s Website Uri Avnery…
Music
Classical Indian Classical Sarangi Indian Classical World Music Network…
Water by Sepehri
I am posting this serene poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), a famous contemporary Iranian poet and painter. Water We shouldn’t muddy the water. A…
New paintings inspired by the golden Bengal
Having spent some weeks in Bangladesh, I ventured to closely observe the folk motifs in Bengali art. I had always admired the simplicity and…
Sufi Congregations – Videoclips from Zikr Sessions
[fusion_text]My dear brother Syed Salman Chisty from Ajmer has uploaded some great links here . He has sent video clips of Sufi Zikr (spiritual…
Galli mein Aaj Chand Nikla (The moon has re-appeared in my lane)
This is a great song from a brilliant, but less known film Zakhm (wound). The film dealt with the thorny issue of communalism during…
She Would Not Be Wrapped
For the British, anxious to distinguish themselves from the natives, nothing was more galling than Indians in European attire. The elite women, especially, in…
Godless Bullets
Salman Taseer’s killing reflects the fight over Pakistan’s soul (OUTLOOK INDIA) AMIR MIR When Punjab governor Salman Taseer stepped out of the Table Talk…
Hating Arundhati Roy
Why We Love To Hate Ms Roy – Saba Naqvi on Arundhati Roy (OUTLOOK) Arundhati Roy certainly has a stomach for controversy. By writing…
Pakistan In 2022: Hybrid Regime Will Unravel But Pakistanis Will Pay The Cost
The ‘hybrid regime’ that has been governing Pakistan since 2018 became hostage to internal contradictions and external pressures throughout the year 2021. The year…
From Lahore To Gwadar: Flawed Development Model Undermines Citizens’ Rights
For years, the local Baloch population has been complaining about their non-inclusion in the medium- and long-term development plans. Towards the end of 2021,…
Will Sialkot Tragedy Change The State Policy Of Appeasing Religious Fanatics?
The Sialkot tragedy should be a wakeup call for the incumbent government as well as the all powerful establishment. The brutal lynching and burning of…
This world without Dr. Annemarie Schimmel
Last year, I came across a Charles Homer Haskins lecture that Dr Annemarie Schimmel delivered in 1993. Aside from the amazing events and milestones…
The Spectacular Rise Of TLP And The Challenges Ahead
Even without a wider platform or broad agenda to achieve victory in the polls, groups such as TLP are poised to exploit the grievances…
Shanul Haq Haqqee: The Forgotten Literary Giant
“Don’t know whose idea it is and what the target is. My personal goals have been very limited. Nor have I ever made literature…
Commentary: IC Reorganization Requires Transparency and Inclusiveness in Decision Making Processes
For months, the Ithaca College community has been in a state of turmoil. The pandemic era has impacted every sphere of human activity including higher…
Karachi Literature Festival: Panel Discussion On Fake News And Disinformation
We are inundated with information, so much that lines of truth, fact, and value have blurred. One has to dig deeper and do silting…
Conversation On Book, “The Roots Of Fake News”
PCIM and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) hosted a conversation, moderated by Raza Rumi, with authors Brian Winston and Matthew Winston about…