Category: Arts

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…

Tropic of Cancer Series: Mother’s Day, THREE Quotes, Emojis and a 3D Art

Stories in Pictures, Videos: Tropic of Cancer Series. Curated by Irshad Salim, Islamabad