Media Watch: Quit horsing around
“I don’t kick a man when he’s down. I kick a man when he’s not looking.”
Hawkeye, M*A*S*H*
Yes, schadenfreude is a base emotion. Yes,...
Nawab Nusrat Khan’s Tomb: Another hidden gem
Most readers will be unaware of this little architectural gem in Lahore known as Nusrat Khan’s Tomb. The reason that this tomb is so...
Media Watch: Women’s clothes
Though you might not guess as much by looking at him, the PTI’s honey-loving, rabble-rousing Ali Amin Gandapur, nominated for the murder of not...
Media Watch: The joke’s on you
Satire, local practitioners of the craft bemoan, dies this side of the Suez. That is a defeatist attitude, of course. There has been plenty...
Lollywood in trouble
Teefa In Trouble is hands down the entertainer of the year. In fact, one could go a few months further back and that claim...
Media Watch: On truncated tallies
“If you don’t stick to your values when they are being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies.” - Jon Stewart.
For there to be more...
Media Watch: “Your message here”
It is said that the man who made the most money in the California Gold Rush was a gentleman by the name of Levi...
Freedom to commodify Kashmir
It’s been over a month since Eid-ul-Fitr, but the four films that jointly hit – in the most literal of senses – cinemas across...
Reham Khan by Reham Khan: A trainwreck inside a dumpster fire
Literary disaster
There are times when something is so bad it just has to be said. In the pursuit of art and greatness, there are...
Jackpot? Jack-sh*t!
One look at the ensemble cast Jackpot and you begin to convince yourself that there might be a few laughs in there to be...
Dr Bengai makes a case for Balochistan
Book review: A Cry for Justice: Emperical Insights from Balochistan
Balochistan cries for justice. The province has, for seventy years, suffered a situation where...
Trump slams NATO spending on eve of departure for summit
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday criticised NATO member states' military spending and said it benefits Europe more than America, setting the stage...
Book preview: Quiet Women by Afshan Shafi
"There are new poetries emerging in the twenty-first century, which are characterized by a ferocity that spans yet exceeds love and outrage, involvement and...
Na script, na acting
Of the four films that came out this Eid-ul-Fitr, Na Band Na Baraati appeared to be the underdog among the lot in the lead...
Tomb of Ali Mardan – Another death for heritage
Let me take you to a monument breathing its last, one we are likely to forget any moment, because of which it is all...
Freedom to slander is over?
With all the news stories that the Chief Justice is taking notice of, it would do him well to take notice of one form...
Media Watch: The age of fear
It is grainy footage from, presumably, a CCTV camera. It’s a quiet street. Some cars, some trees and some kids playing. Two men come...
