Movie Review: Bandit Queen – By M. Srivastava
“There may never be a truth that is final, absolute or infallible. But the life of Phoolan Devi, as told by Kapur in Bandit Queen,...
Category: People
Imran Khan’s Education Policy – By A.A.Minai
Imran Khan wants to educate Pakistan. In a country where literacy is actually declining, that is an ambitious and important goal. Ostensibly, more than 25%...
How Would Gandhi Answer 9/11 Attack? – By Udayakumar
Words cannot explain the sheer terror and the intimate loss that thousands of people have suffered in the United States on 9/11. More than the...
Steps of a Fort: 1556, 1864 – By S. Rao
In 1864, a tall British man from Nottingham stood exactly where I was with his crew of coolies and a daguerreotype camera, looking down at...
Cyber-Night Dreams – Poem by Prof. Mirza Athar Baig
Cyber-Night Dreams – Poem by Prof. Mirza Athar Baig [GC University, Lahore]
Zindan ki ek Shaam – Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Urdu Poem
Zindan ki ek Shaam – Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Urdu Poem شام کے پیچ و خم ستاروں سے زینہ زینہ اُتر رہی...
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Rafeeq e Raah thee Manzil har Ik Talaash ke Baad – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
رفیق راہ تھی منزل ہر اک تلاش کے بعد چھٹا یہ ساتھ تو رہ کی تلاش بھی نہ رہی ملول تھا دل آیئنہ...
Goodbye, Allah Rakhi – By Ras Siddiqui
In memory of Noor Jahan Our best-known Pakistani nightingale is gone. Her journey from birth (real name Allah Rakhi as reported by the BBC) in...
Rabbi Shergill – Music Review – By Veeresh M.
Rabbi Shergill – Music Review – By Veeresh M. I don`t know about technical brilliance and electronic wizardly… but I know what will be playing...
A Candid Interview With Saeed Anwar – By Nadeem Khan
For once, a buccaneering effort by the lithe Pakistani opener went in vain, although his 140 in the third Coca Cola Independence Cup Final against...
The People’s Poet – By Mohammad Gill
Ahmad Faraz is a peoples’ poet. He speaks in the metaphors of prophecy and vision that transcends rhetoric and narrow nationalism. He is truly an...
Mahatma Gandhi’s Progeny – By Farzana Versey
“Let the minorities understand that their real safety lies in the goodwill of the majority”. (Words of wisdom at the recently-concluded RSS executive council meeting)...
Why didn’t the Scientific Revolution happen in Islam? – By Pervez Hoodbhoy
Every great civilization writes its own history, selectively extracts data from the past, and then proves to its satisfaction that its greatness has no peer...
An Analysis of the Information Technology Industry in Pakistan – By Faraz Hoodbhoy
Pakistan Map 1.0 Abstract This paper presents a personal perspective of the state of Information Technology (IT) industry in Pakistan. It is a collection of...
“BOL” A Very Bold Movie – By Ras Siddiqui
This movie has taken the cloak (and clothes) off many segments of current Pakistani society and parts of it will make the viewer quite uncomfortable....
Ambri (Mother) A Poem by Anwar Masood – By Asif Naqshbandi
The poem highlights many things which are a part of rural Punjabi culture, especially the spoilt upbringing of male children, in particular, and the...
In memory of Dr. Abdus Salam – By Professor Jogesh Pati
[This article was published in Physics Today (August 1997). It is being reproduced here with the permission of the author] Abdus Salam died at age...
Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan : A Tribute by Asif Naqshbandi
I met Asad Amanat Ali Khan a few years ago; I didn’t think I’d never meet him again. I was quite shocked to learn, relatively...
Mevlana Rumi visit Allama Iqbal – Story narrated by Dr. Javid Iqbal
Justice Dr. Javid Iqbal, who passed away recently, narrates some interesting events in his book ‘Apna Garebaan Chaak‘, a candid biography of his father Dr....
Nobel Award of Dr. Abdus Salam – GC University Lahore
I am unsure whether it is fortunate or unfortunate that when one imagines Pakistan’s contribution to science, there is only one name that emerges in mind. Dr....
Noor Jehan sings Faiz Ahmad Faiz کلام فیض، نور جہاں کی آواز میں
Noor Jehan, often called Mallika Taranum (The Queen of Melody) in Pakistan, once mentioned in an interview that Faiz Ahmed Faiz in a mehfil...
The Patras 1975-76, Special Issue of Ravi راوی کا خاص پطرس نمبر
The Patras was a special issue published by GC University Lahore in memory of Ahmad Shah ‘Patras’ Bokhari.
