Safia Hassan: Educator Par Excellence
We know and recognize that there are many teachers we know who have given their hearts, minds and souls to...
Pakistan Cinema’s glorious black-and-white era
On December 11, 2019 I had the distinct privilege and honor to be invited to give a presentation at the...
Khayyam: connecting melodies with mountains
Maestro Khayyam lived and breathed like all of us mortals at sea level, but his soul somehow was always connected...
Garam Hava (The Scorching Wind)
Ismat Chughtai's name will go down in history as a luminary in Urdu literature, specially as a prolific short-story writer,...
Razia Sultan: The first and the last female Muslim to rule the Delhi Sultanate
We flip through the pages of history to the Sultanate of Delhi of the year 1211. Its Sultan, Qutbuddin Aibak,...
FAIZ and FILMS
Some years ago, a dear family friend, a die-hard fan and Faiz admirer, Zaheer Kidvai produced a DVD on Faiz...
Adam Voges: Cricket’s bizarre and breezy chapter
Adam Charles Voges may not be a household name even with cricket fanatics, but he does have the enviable distinction...
The English Patient
Remember the poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning best-seller made into an Academy Award motion picture, sometime in the...