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Don Quixote is the Saturday Night Live of the Spanish Inquisition. Cervantes roasts everybody, including the Catholic Church and even the reader. This magnum opus—called by many the first Western novel—is really a
FLASHBAK: On June 8, 1963, the Illustrated London News ran the following story about an exhibition at the gorilla house at The Bronx Zoo in New York City. The exhibit
KARACHI: These pictures taken in March 2021 show three sleeping Buddha statues thrown out with the trash at the National Museum here, Pakistan’s economic powerhouse –the capital of Sindh province:
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IRSHAD SALIM: “I love both these songs. Listen to them…they’re imaginative”, I said to a friend when he asked me on WhatsApp: “What do you think is happening in the
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Legendary Dilip Kumar is no more. He was 98. The quintessential tragedy king –doyen of Indian cinema, passed away on Wednesday morning in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital and home to
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Punch line By Z.G. Muhammad: ‘Oh! It is a whopper sandwich.’It was my instantaneous reaction after finishing reading yet another book on Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. It was the second book
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By McKENZIE TOMA: A dramatic clue lodged in a rockface.Set in a shimmering sound belt slung around the grasses. Collections of numbers signify a large sum, a fatness that cannot
IRSHAD SALIM from Islamabad — Nafees Bhai would be hardly noticeable and recognizable if I ran into him on a street in any major city of Pakistan. He’s a newsmaker
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Justin H. Vassallo in the Boston Review: The book Ages of American Capitalism decisively demonstrates that capital does not work in the interest of the public without state mechanisms that both
In this savage cinematic caper about an academic fraudster, social commentary meets standup comedy. Raina stretches stereotype and cliche into incisive satire. Sana Goyal in The Guardian: The opening chapter of How
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Satnam Punjabi, 29, is a budding singer from Indian Punjab who is focused on peace, love and humanity. A highly educated young man, Satnam is pursuing his PhD from a
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“Israel has perfected a far more sophisticated system of discrimination and colonization through a matrix of regulations and infrastructures that govern every aspect of Palestinian life,” Rafeef Ziadah, a Palestinian
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