FLASHBAK: On June 8, 1963, the Illustrated London News ran the following story about an exhibition…
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Sleeping Buddha Statues in Trash For ‘Safe Keeping’ (Video)
KARACHI: These pictures taken in March 2021 show three sleeping Buddha statues thrown out with the…
Caucasian Blues and Sade’s Smooth Operator (Videos)
IRSHAD SALIM: “I love both these songs. Listen to them…they’re imaginative”, I said to a friend…
Tragedy King Dilip Kumar Passes Away. End of an Era.
Legendary Dilip Kumar is no more. He was 98. The quintessential tragedy king –doyen of Indian…
KASHMIR: A Review of Two Biographies of Sheikh Abdullah
Punch line By Z.G. Muhammad: ‘Oh! It is a whopper sandwich.’It was my instantaneous reaction after…
POEM: Disintegrating Calculus Problem
By McKENZIE TOMA: A dramatic clue lodged in a rockface.Set in a shimmering sound belt slung…
Hats Off to Nafees Bhai’s Four Snippets (Video)
IRSHAD SALIM from Islamabad — Nafees Bhai would be hardly noticeable and recognizable if I ran…
A Sweeping New History of U.S. Capitalism Finds That Economic Gains Have Always Been Driven By the State
Justin H. Vassallo in the Boston Review: The book Ages of American Capitalism decisively demonstrates that capital…
How to Kidnap the Rich – a Satire on Modern India
In this savage cinematic caper about an academic fraudster, social commentary meets standup comedy. Raina stretches…