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David Černý’s “Man Hanging Out” lifelike sculpture of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud hanging from a pole above a street in Prague is so realistic that it has prompted more than a
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Three poems from “Sometime Somewhere”, a collection of English poetry by four Pakistanis published in summer of 1977
Advent of Spring The world and the EarthAnd the sand and the sky is ours The mud and the gravel sandThe pods being sown is ours The blossom and the
Continue readingTWO POEMS: Advent of Spring, Thunder and Rain
When you pray for the rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.~ The Equalizer (Hollywood film) Good point from Denzel Washington! (Mahmud, Malaysia) But when you get a storm
Books teach you to think, says Dr. Arfa Sayeda Zehra, a renowned Pakistani educationist, literary personality, and Urdu language expert. Zehra says: “We let thinking disappear from our society and
Continue readingArfa Sayeda Zehra Compares Book Vs. Pizza (Video)
A baby senses a beingAs soon as senses allow And Mother is thereCuddling & loving & feeding & caring Growing up one feels others aroundThe world with its colors &
Continue reading‘Woman’ By Aziz Ahmed: A Poem on Women’s Day 2021
Blast from the past: Amitabh & Rekha in Bollywood hit movie ‘Silsila’ — singing a duet.
Click and drag to look around… It’s “virtually” my office and Harvey the Rabbit’s too. Irshad Salim, Islamabad
‘Iron Brothers’ China and Pakistan have an ‘all-weather friendship’ driven by shared interests and therefore guided by principles of order, harmony, respect, ethics, and fraternity, says a Pak-China observer. At
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Max Bruce, a student of Urdu at the University of Texas in Austin renders Ghalib’s poem and one of his own at a Mushaira (Poetry recital
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This song was originally composed in Bengali by Hemant Mukherjee, an eminent Kolkata musical figure. The same tune was later used in a Bollywood movie –with Urdu translation. A rare
A large number of Indian movie stars were born in Pakistan –the western region of the subcontinent, before partitioning of British India in August 1947: Dilip Kumar (Original name Yousaf