Category: Arts
Poems: Cloud in the Wind. Freedom Fret. Weed Instead of Tree. Dubai Chalo
Four poems from ‘Sometime Somewhere’ -published by ‘Budding Talents’ organization, Karachi, in 1977:
Among the Wild Things: Maurice Sendak’s Fantastic Imagination
Caponera and Weinberg described how Sendak labored methodically, industriously, as if his life depended on…
Story In Pictures: TWO Rainbows
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that…
Activism as Art
This article is from a presentation made for the Rosemary Bechler Inaugural Memorial Lecture, an…
In Pictures: The Art of Resistance Endures
Scott Peterson in The Christian Science Monitor: Rarely have so many Lebanese turned out on the…
The Mathematician Who Finds Poetry in Math and Math in Poetry
Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways…
The Motorcycle Diaries: Should We Love Che Guevara
Portrait of “the insurgent” as a young man in The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman in…
Love Letters to Stones
by Mary Hrovat in 3 Quarks Daily: I recently read the wonderfully ambiguous sentence, “The…
FOUR Poems By Irshad Salim From ‘Sometime Somewhere’ (Video)
Published in 1977 Sometime Somewhere included 34 poems by Irshad Salim which he had penned…
When Time Stands Still
by Raji Jayaraman: Vijay was the smartest kid in class. It was a small class,…
Pakistan: Growing Weed Instead of Tree
IRSHAD SALIM: A note from my diary Jhatke Pe Jhatka (Shock & Awe): A free…
Hanif Kureishi: Accident ‘Completely Eradicated’ Sense of Self and Privacy
Author says he had to adjust to ‘becoming another person’ after injuries in Boxing Day…