Media Watch: Not enough rigging, complains Ayaz Amir
The problem here, of course, is that one might be misinterpreting him. Maybe, just maybe, Ayaz Amir is being sarcastic in his column in...
Jamsheed Marker – and the Parsi gentlemen of Karachi
There is an air that surrounds the Indian subcontinent’s Parsi community. It is the sort of local fascination that the rest of the world...
Media Watch: A million mutinies now
The punditry’s ideas, frozen in time...
You might have seen it. It was footage made from a cell-phone camera. Given the rapid improvements in phone...
Criminal filmmaking
When we – repeatedly, painstakingly, relentlessly, on a loop – talk about the revival of Pakistani cinema, the only thing that Wajood appears to...
The rebirth of Chauburji
Let me take you to a monument which was until very recently breathing its last. Only a few months ago, the very existence of...
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousafi – The laughing Titan of Urdu literature
There’s a certain stoicness when one imagines a banker. A stiffness in the neck, a haste in the step, and a burden on the...
7 Din Bollywood In
In the lead up to Eid, the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage prohibited the screening of Indian films for a...
Sheeda rhymes with “banjar”
Sheikh Rasheed, of course, isn’t known for minding his language. The self-described “downtown man” claims to have his hand on the pulse of the...
Media Watch: Duelling Chaudhrys
Neither went to finishing school. When we hear of a guests’ list of a television talk show that has both the League’s Talal Chaudhry...
Ode to the Amaltas
It’s six in the afternoon and the hot, dry, summer breeze whistles dolefully through the trees and the shrubbery at Bagh-i-Jinnah (Lawrence Gardens), keeping...
Media Watch: Not taking this lying down
A thunderous speech. Recently elected All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) President Hameed Haroon made an impassioned plea for press freedom at the annual APNS...
Media Watch: When you mistake the BBC for ARY
It was one horrible interview.
When Zeinab Badawi was grilling Imran Khan on the BBC’s Hardtalk, the latter’s responses oscillated from the stupid to the...
Spain’s Basques form 202-km human chain to call for independence vote
MADRID: Tens of thousands of people from Spain's Basque Country joined hands to form a human chain running some 202 kilometers (125 miles) on...
Why not, Junoon?
Probably the only thing wrong with Call reprising Jilawatan, and EP performing Hamesha in back to back episodes of last year’s Pepsi Battle of...
Media Watch: New lows
That the news media is being suppressed wouldn’t spring any surprises. That is how things have been in this neck of the woods. That...
Media Watch: Apparently, some sort of book is coming out
Hamza Ali Abbasi, avid supporter of the PTI and part-time scowler on television dramas, seems to have embarked on an unintentional promotional tour for...
Precisely on time
Book review: ‘From Kargil to the coup: Events that shook Pakistan.’
The question is not just Kargil, but why Pakistan repeatedly allows this to happen.
India’s...
