So what’s your gut feeling?
As surprising a connection as it may sound, it is quite often the case that it is the gut which causes different manifestations of...
Media Watch: This guy is an improvement?
Sometimes, there are situations that could be classified in the any-change-would-be-an-improvement category. It was thought that the Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan’s position as...
Media Watch: Not NAB DG’s finest hour
He’s good. Shahzeb Khanzada is now arguably the best news show host in the country. If you want to watch an informed account of...
Media Watch: TLP and PTM
A common refrain from within the conservative commentariat during the TLP’s protests is that the country’s liberati do not call out the “anti-state” speeches...
Amir Liaquat Hussain: A rollicking 2018 timeline
Pakistan Tehreek i Insaaf MNA, televangelist, religious scholar and game show host Amir Liaquat Hussain has been indicted by a two member bench of...
Body Becoming: Mainstreaming performance art
A first for Pakistan
Performance art, as a concept, is alien to Pakistan. For afficiendos, it is a vague concept. An outlier so unfamiliar...
Media Watch: Tiny men, all around
Pakistani pundits don't think they're important, they think they know they are important.
They’re not, of course. All it would take for them to bite...
Media Watch: No talk of sex or spooks
The Supreme Court in India did away with a 158-year-old law that criminalised a man having an affair with a married woman.
There is a...
Media Watch: This guy? Seriously?
No, not his finest hour. Farrukh Saleem, the newly-appointed government spokesperson for economic issues, had a tough time fielding questions from the ever-sharp, ever-unyielding...
Reporter-man: The brash and the badtameez
The scene is a familiar one. A reporter, if you want to call him that, armed with a microphone and a cameraman is on...
How a love for photography catapulted Nida Alvi to Instagram fame
Alvi says she draws her inspiration from the beauty of ‘nature’ and “God is the biggest artist!”
Honouring a theatre great
The Madeeha Gauhar Theatre Festival
It was to packed crowds filled with the country’s artistic elite that the Madeeha Gauhar Theatre Festival opened at...
Media Watch: Digital is the future
Look at the image, now gone viral, carefully.
A couple of senior citizens, listening intently to the Kavanaugh hearings.
Brett Kavanaugh, of course, is a jurist...
Media Watch: Death of the “All 42 Flavours!” TV pundit, hopefully
The video itself has a WhatsApp logo, but most saw it on Facebook. G News, a Gujranwala collective, apparently, had shared it there. Though...
Media Watch: Singing for your supper
‘Oh, don’t stop…..you have a nice voice.
Like a bulbul.’
‘In a china-china-shop,’
From A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Ah, the human voice lifted...
Media Watch: A comedy of errors and then some
The Dependent, this paper’s satirical sister publication, has been in operation for nearly two years now. And from the day of its inception in...
What if the World ain’t half as bad as we think?
Hans Rosling in ‘Factfulness’ aims to free us from our archaic mindsets that imagine world as a living, breathing hellhole
Trump in America, Modi in...
