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Instagram artist Becca Saladin transformed famous faces from the past into modern-day people — and the results are stunning. Here are few: Curated by Irshad Salim in Islamabad. Most of
Continue readingStory in Pics: Here’s How Some Historical Figures Would Look If They Lived Today
IRSHAD SALIM — Zafar in Riyadh shared this Shania Twain –after I shared one this morning Said Shania’s ‘Coat of many colors’ is “desi”. I reminded him she is a
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The animals are taking over roads, neighborhoods and cities while the world is in lockdown. Some (like these penguins) are “transgressing” man-made boundaries and buildings also! Animal behaviorist Suzanne MacDonald
Shared with us on WhatsApp today: Two videos sung in Bengali that spawn nostalgia at home and abroad…
RT Not An Endorsement. Updated Regularly. FACESPOOK! Zuckerberg surfboards in Hawaii with way too much sunscreen… 2015 footage resurfaces showing Bedouin Palestinian kids being treated like ‘zoo animals’ (warning: distressing)…
Saman Husnain Shah, former Mrs. Pakistan World and former international beauty queen has been appointed a lifetime judge for two International beauty pageants. Mrs. Globe USA and Mr., Mrs. and Miss Pakistan
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IRSHAD SALIM — Ilhan Omar has called for the ‘dismantling’ of US economy and the political system. ‘The web server is returning an unknown error’ page when I clicked on
IRSHAD SALIM — When I sign in my Facebook account, the usherette of this global multiplex cinema asks me “What do you have in mind, Irshad”. It’s Sunday in Islamabad
SATIRE — Daily we get hundreds of tweets and scores of WhatsApp sharings. Among them, these three videoclips knocked our socks off. Taking a step (The Onion style — America’s
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IRSHAD SALIM — Open the window a few inches more than is comfortable, says Jane Hirshfield, author of seven books of poetry. I did in pandemic of the aperture. Stepped
We Will and Shall Overcome Masses will triumph not the entrenched and powerless so-called elitesCoronavirus has seemingly wiped them offSimmering in their caves for being spared Haha! Nature triumphs!All else
Continue reading‘I Can’t Breathe’, ‘We Shall Overcome’, and a Paulo Coelho