Category: Arts
Did Don Quixote Long For Muslim Spain?
Don Quixote is the Saturday Night Live of the Spanish Inquisition. Cervantes roasts everybody, including the Catholic Church…
The Most Dangerous Animal in the World
FLASHBAK: On June 8, 1963, the Illustrated London News ran the following story about an…
Sleeping Buddha Statues in Trash For ‘Safe Keeping’ (Video)
KARACHI: These pictures taken in March 2021 show three sleeping Buddha statues thrown out with…
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…
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…
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…
POEM: Disintegrating Calculus Problem
By McKENZIE TOMA: A dramatic clue lodged in a rockface.Set in a shimmering sound belt…
Hats Off to Nafees Bhai’s Four Snippets (Video)
IRSHAD SALIM from Islamabad — Nafees Bhai would be hardly noticeable and recognizable if I…
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…
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…
Satnam Punjabi Latest: ‘Nabi Diyan Siftan’ (Video)
Satnam Punjabi, 29, is a budding singer from Indian Punjab who is focused on peace,…
‘I am an Arab Woman of Color. We Come in All Shades of Anger’
“Israel has perfected a far more sophisticated system of discrimination and colonization through a matrix…