Articles with tag: tribute
Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul
Juan Sandoval May 3, 2008 interacts: 233Nirmala Deshpande a dedicated Gandhian was a true peace activist.
Race to the Finish
Feroz Qutabshahi Apr 29, 2008 interacts: 77860 years ago, when Jackie Robinson, first Black Man to play in US Major League Baseball, walked onto the field, he was taunted, ridiculed, and booed, but despite all adversity, he delivered.
Judah Folkman
Syed Shah Feb 11, 2008 interacts: 5History may yet end up remembering Judah Folkman, who passed away earlier this year at Denver International Airport, as the man who cured cancer.
Leaders, Heroes and Mountains
Shantanu Dutta Jan 13, 2008 interacts: 9He (Sir Admund Hillary) was not a sahib who came, conquered and left having had his adventure in the hills. He established and sustained a lasting bond with the Sherpa people of the Himalayas.
Abdul Latif Khalid (1944-2007)
Yasser Latif Hamdani Dec 24, 2007 interacts: 113My father’s sudden demise at only 63 years of age through a massive heart attack has been by far the most profound life experience I have had to endure.
Searching for Qurratulain Hyder in a Delhi Kabristan
Mayank AustenSoofi Nov 13, 2007 interacts: 10I was looking for a grave. In the next hill perhaps? For Qurratulain Hyder. She was an Urdu writer who died on August 21.
Tribute to a Giant
Shiraz Mahmood Nov 13, 2007 interacts: 3Inzimam-ul-Haq, a glorius 17 year career, at the heart of Pakistan’s middle order. He has the most half-centuries, centuries and the second highest test runs by a Pakistani.
In the Loving Memory of Waleed Iqbal
Zara Hafeez Nov 6, 2007 interacts: 9Waleed Iqbal is known in the debating fraternity of Pakistan as being one of the finest members of the Pakistan debating Society. ... For a man I refuse to fade away.
A tribute: To Revathy Gopal
Lokhi Menon Oct 13, 2007 interacts: 5We talked just once on the phone
I, the hopeful poet,
you, established and acknowledged,
friendly, kind and encouraging.
Death in the Clouds
Beej K Singh Sep 10, 2007 interacts: 50And some red lines shall forever hold – because that’s the way they are – because that’s the way the Artist chose to draw them!
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mohammad Gill Jun 15, 2007 interacts: 140It is said that Archimedes knew all the mathematics that was developed up to his time and some more. The same is said of Newton and Carl Gauss.
Alex
Beena Sarwar May 17, 2007 interacts: 6A tall, broad, handsome 21 year old who loved basketball, on the outside he was the same old Alex. But he had become someone he did not want to be.
An Evening with Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan: A Tribute
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 31I met Asad Amanat Ali Khan a few years ago; I didn't think I'd never meet him again.
Honored
Chowk Staff Mar 28, 2007 interacts: 24Humanists honour psychiatrist and writer Dr. Khalid Sohail
Jaane kahan gaye voh din!
Dost Mittar Mar 22, 2007 interacts: 138But a new generation of the young and restless cine fans had replaced the old generation and they had neither the time nor the taste to savour the slow intoxication of the old style of music.
Mohammad Yousuf: A tribute
Ahmer Muzammil Dec 3, 2006 interacts: 80I would like to say a sentence or two about the Pakistani who broke Sir Viv Richard’s long standing record for most runs in a calendar year, as many of you might already know that man is Mohammad Yosuf.
Understanding Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Zalan Alam Nov 29, 2006 interacts: 150Trying to understand Z. A. Bhutto is hard, and to understand that period of Pakistan’s history is harder still.
Schumi No More!
farheen zehra Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 4You might hate him or love him, but no matter what you feel about him, you do know him. The one person who comes in your mind when you hear the word Formula 1?
Remembering a great Pakistani: Sir Zafrullah Khan
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 31, 2006 interacts: 573His greatest contribution came when he drafted the famous Lahore Resolution, which till this day is the rallying point of Pakistan and Pakistani nationalism.
The Birdman of India
Mohammad Gill Jun 1, 2006 interacts: 38I had never heard of Salim Ali before in my life because I was not interested in the birds and bird-watching. Seabrook’s article intrigued my curiosity and I set out finding who the distinguished Indian ornithologist, Salim Ali, was...
Growing Up Red
Ali Hashmi Sep 28, 2005 interacts: 84My maternal grandfather, ‘Nana’ to us kids, who I later found out was one of the root causes of my ’trouble’ was mostly absent. He had been in self imposed exile since being imprisoned in 1951 when he had spent 4 years in jail for
Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed: The Naked Sufi Martyr
Asif Naqshbandi Jul 13, 2005 interacts: 215Every man who is aware of his secret
He becomes concealed even from the skies
The mullah says that Ahmad went to the heavens
Sarmad says that the heavens were inside Ahmad!
The Creator of Legends
Sunil K Poolani May 17, 2005 interacts: 9An obituary... one of the greatest writers the world has ever produced. And what raised him to that pedestal is his first and best novel, The Legend of Khasak, which was published around the same time that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s path-bre
Amrita Pritam
Umair Raja May 15, 2005 interacts: 369Today, I call Waris Shah, “Speak from inside your grave”
And turn, today, the book of love’s next affectionate page
To Saneeya Hussain (August 13, 1954-April 20, 2005)
Beena Sarwar May 1, 2005 interacts: 21There are tears at your untimely departure, but no, we’re not just sitting about mourning gloomily. Our grief runs deep, but when we meet and share your memories, there is also laughter, especially as we recall yours.
Such Anais Journey!
Farzana Versey Mar 7, 2005 interacts: 47How many of us women can accept the verdict of being the 'Madonna of St. Clitoris' or the 'Venus with an over-bite'? Anais Nin could because it was while clothed in words that she stood most naked.
My Mother, Myself
Samina Rizwan Feb 8, 2005 interacts: 9As an Air Force wife who saw her combat pilot husband through two wars and a highly charged flying career, my mother witnessed many fatal air crashes...
Parveen Babi Passed Away
Mohammad Gill Feb 7, 2005 interacts: 7Parveen was a glamorous actress who brought charm and unique attraction to the Bollywood film screen. The first time I saw her was in Kranti.
Jacques Derrida, Founder of Deconstruction, is Dead
Mohammad Gill Nov 12, 2004 interacts: 4..Make it your last question because it sends deconstruction into paroxysm of rage. Yet the theory of deconstruction was the rage...
Bulleh Shah
Umair Raja Sep 12, 2004 interacts: 67A man, whose writings - barely understood, even by those who speak his language - contain, amongst them, such enlightening and powerful Sufianic philosophies that even Smith, Voltaire, Rosseau, Kant et. al. would have been proud to claim them, as their ow
Death of a Renowned Urdu Literati
Mohammad Gill Sep 9, 2004 interacts: 19He was a distinguished writer after the generation of Manto, Bedi, and Krishan Chandar.
Our ’Zamir’
Beena Sarwar Jun 14, 2004 interacts: 8Zamir in Urdu means conscience, and that is what Zamir Niazi, that great chronicler of media freedoms and censorships, was to so many of us – our conscience.
The Nuclear Father
Mansoor Ahmed Apr 27, 2004 interacts: 39Under Munir’s dedicated leadership, Pakistan’s nuclear programme developed into a multi-faceted and dynamic center of science and technology, both on the peaceful and deterrence sides.
Mehreen Jabbar
Laila Kazmi Dec 21, 2003 interacts: 11To Mehreen experimenting with a story is one of the most interesting parts of creating a play.
Johnny Walker- King of Comedy
Ashfaq Ahmad Nov 23, 2003 interacts: 6On 27th July, 2003, Bob Hope died. Two days later, Badruddin Kazi, popularly known as Johnny Walker died.
Razia Bondrey Bhatti: A Woman of Courage
Laila Kazmi Nov 3, 2003 interacts: 19'I see the journalist’s role as both reporter and crusader. In a civilization that seems to be regressing into new holocausts, we must seek and speak the truth, for we are the voice of voiceless millions. Having chosen this profession, we cannot be
Ahmed Rushdi
Anis Shakur Oct 25, 2003 interacts: 9The journey which Rushdi had started from Mehdi Zaheer’s ’Bunder Road’ in 1954 had ended at Azar Hafiz’s ’Aanay walo suno’ in 1983.
Death Be Not Proud
Ali Hashmi Oct 23, 2003 interacts: 16It was close to midnight when I found out that Mani had died.
A Student Remembers a Great Teacher
Omar R Quraishi Oct 4, 2003 interacts: 229As a university teacher of a popular seminar class, or as a key speaker in a teach-in, Edward Said had this ability to establish a connection with his audience.
Greatest Indians
Bhaskar Dasgupta Sep 28, 2003 interacts: 11Ideally speaking, the Bharat Ratna award should give a list of the greatest Indians, but I was rather disappointed with it, it doesn’t fit into my definition of greatness. In any case, it comprises of people from the past 50 odd years only. So I dec
The Death of Edward Said -- A tribute
Malik S Khar Sep 28, 2003 interacts: 193Palestinians have lost a spokesperson, Columbia University has lost a Professor, the music world has lost an accomplished pianist and I have lost a mentor.
The Diva as Devi
Farzana Versey Sep 28, 2003 interacts: 39Lata Mangeshkar personifies the Indian obsession with the woman on a pedestal. But, has she in any way made the Indian woman feel that power?
Habib Wali Mohammad
Anis Shakur Sep 13, 2003 interacts: 27He came to be known as the Taan Sen in his college.
Wasim Akram: A Tribute
Asif Naqshbandi Sep 5, 2003 interacts: 34Voted Number 1 by Wisden in the list of the Top 100 ODI bowlers in history.
Johnny Walker
Anil S Arora Sep 3, 2003 interacts: 10Despite our re-assuring self-glorification about having one of the biggest and most vibrant cinemas in the world, film studies in India are in such a sterile state that we cannot say whether Johnny Walker was born in 1924 or 1925.
In Loving Memory of Nazia Apa (aka Nazia Hasan)
Zeeshan Suhail Aug 12, 2003 interacts: 28Nazia Hassan was a sub-continental icon. On her third death anniversary, a fan and friend pays tribute
