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Polly Morland in The Guardian: Most of us over the age of 30 can remember the family doctor we had when we were kids. They met us as babies and watched
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Pankaj Mishra at Paris Review: I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the mid-nineties, when she was an editor at Oxford University Press and I had just published
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IRSHAD SALIM — Pakistani pyrotechnic team won the top slot in a major competition on 14th August in Moscow. The (video below) captures their ten-minute performance. Watch after 2min 15
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IN KARACHI “water provision is “more lucrative than drugs”…competition for control of the city’s water includes water mafias and formal institutions…it is a source of intense economic and political competition.
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Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi (Aug. 16, 2022)
THEN: Guangzhou, the port city in southern China, in the late 18th century. Because of its position at the meeting point of inland rivers and the South China sea, it
Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol. “All children are shaped by their parents,” Adam Entous
ANWAR ABBAS — Since my childhood, celebrating ‘Independence Day’ was always the most fascinating event. We used to hoist national flags at the rooftop of our home and small flags
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Written in 1944, Feeling Is the Secret resounds with the full power of Neville Goddard’s mystical vision. One of the great metaphysical teachers of the 20th century, Goddard with total
What does our national anthem mean in our national language Urdu, as the lyric is in Farsi (Persian)? A video share in January this year helped understand what the anthem’s
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Story in pictures — could be album or book covers… FEATURED VIDEO: Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi, Aug. 15. 2022
PS: Back in Riyadh in 2013, I met two officers and gentlemen with whom I had an extremely honest, candid and insightful conversations. One of them, Mueen Anwar, a year
Continue readingNajane Kab: THIS Pic, the Song, and Jinnah’s Words (Video)