Cultural Events of Pakistan & India
International Youth Summit Lahore [IYSL] will be holding its first conference in Lahore between 6th -12th November. The conference focuses on the Role of Youth in achieving Peace, Education...
Interpretation of Islam by few extremists as a means of scoring political gains has led to the Non-Muslims developing a prejudice against the religion...
The Taste of Eid: Poem by Bina Shah The taste of this Eid was bittersweet On the one hand, the cloying sugar-burst of prepared dishes...
When it comes to Urdu Literature Recitals as an art form, Zia Mohyeddin stands in a league of his own. Mastering the art of delivering each word...
The Origin of Life by S. Shafqat On a warm and humid day approximately 3.8 billion years ago, with the adolescent Earth cooling down into its permanent features...
Edward Said is a distinguished Palestinian-American writer. He has written many world acclaimed works on the Palestinian quest ion His scholarly work Orientalism is highly influential in...
The Hafsa girls took burqa to the street in a blatant way by occupying a children’s library in Islamabad. Later on, they kidnapped a...
The Environmental Movement – Whose Movement? – B. Jafri Are`nt all of us a part of the Environment? It seems like a somewhat inane question,...
“Why Lahore is better than every other city on Earth”, Bill Oreilly, that hawkish blabbermouth host of the `Oreilly Factor` aired on the not so fair and...
The Mandir Mirage – by Farzana Versey They will do anything at all. They will do anything at all. What confounds me is that people are going...
The TV screens in every Indian home have shown us the savage joy on the faces of the goons who recently attacked poor non...
The Author penned this article immediately after Sept 11. It is reproduced here for reference. In an attack that killed indiscriminately on September 11th 2001, one can clearly...
In the midst of recent turmoil in Cairo, one can reflect on the work of Egyptian Nobel Laureate-Naguib Mahfouz, “The Cairo Trilogy”. All children have...
This is somewhat of a contentious topic to write about, which is of course why I am writing about Muslim-ness. There are many...
