This Week’s Best Cartoons
Election 2024; Incumbency; Media Polls; Debate; Pornstar…
‘The Young Engineer’ and Sibte Hasan
Habib Khan, Quetta: We had met Syed Sibte Hasan by chance. It so happened that we were roaming the corridors of a business center in Karachi’s “Qamar House”, and noticed
This Week’s Best Cartoons
Select cartoons on Gaza, students protests, Trump, Biden. More here.
Poetic Expression: Apples n Oranges
Majority left, West Pakistan Pakistan.Cabal saved, lands freed, businesses nationalizedPolitics monetized, economy amortized. Dreamers became Muhajirs, Safdar weeps at Jinnah’s tombSalim got to wait and weep at mother Rabia’s grave.
Amir Timur and the Battle of Stalingrad
Habib Khan from Quetta: Amir Timur (aka Tamerlane) allegedly learned perseverance from an ant. According to legends, and the school curriculum, Timur observed an ant repeatedly trying to climb a
Cartoons This Week: No One is Above the Law
Selected cartoons this week: Summer Getaway Plans; Columbia Univ. Yearbook, Today’s Specials, Etc.
Habib Khan: Woman of the Book
I had traveled to Dalbandin which is some 200 km west of Noshkay, in December of 1970, when I was still in Grade 10, and the National Assembly elections had
Habib Khan: There is No Free Lunch
Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: This story is from a “walknic,” which of course is not an addition to the English dictionary but a combination of two word “walk” and
Irshad Salim: On Baldness
“A Bald Man With Glasses Knows What He’s Doing” Irshad Salim, Karachi: I was reading a piece this morning on comedian Larry David’s stoicism with baldness, beardness, glassness (wearing glasses),
A Tale of Two Football Matches
by Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: In my youth days, I happened to be in Central Ukraine during the Soviet era, and was fascinated by the immensity of their sports
‘You Either Live Long or You Live Short, and You Can’t Do Much About it.’
Quote of the Day John Alfred Tinniswood, age 111, was recently confirmed as the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records and said the secret to longevity was ultimately “pure
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A Display of Faceless Portraits in Venice
Kin Woo at The New York Times: For over a decade now, the Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz has been recreating portraits of women by painters from the Renaissance era to