Category: Irshad Salim

Random Thoughts: About a Cool Check, POI, Etc.

Irshad Salim: 20+ years ago in the early 2000s, my neighbor Narku from Ghana who…

Black and White Photography Isn’t Old School For Same Old Stories

B&W photography goes back to the fundamentals of what photography has always been. Take color…

Irshad Salim: On Baldness

“A Bald Man With Glasses Knows What He’s Doing” Irshad Salim, Karachi: I was reading…

The New World (Dis)order

Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a…

Bad

WhatsApp shares on ‘bad’. Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi: …and a good system will expose…

Rohingya of the Two Nation Doctrine

A recent podcast with the author of the book “Refugee”–it is centered on the 1971…

Delta

The ‘delta’ between the two mind-sets will maintain the equilibrium in the status quo, and…

‘Good’

This morning, I decided to aggregate few ‘good’ ones (WhatsApp shares) that I had received…

Aankhon Ko Visa Nahi Lagta By Gulzar

Blast from the past: Gulzar pens a beautiful ode to Mehdi Hasan, and remembers Ahmed…

Afghanistan: Broad Strokes and Canvases

Irshad Salim: Over the years, paints, brushes, the pellet knife and canvases substituted my textual…

Laila and Majnu

Early morning today, while reading Laila Majnu — an age-old love story turned into a…

Skeletons in the Closet

Irshad Salim: In the Summer of 2020, I shared one of the many moments and…