Way of Life :: Cricket
Recent articles from the archives
Puppetry Through the Ages
Munazza Rashid Mar 2, 2008Over the years, puppetry has developed into a powerful medium of communication as it offers a real challenge to the imagination of viewers and creative ability of the presenters.
Theatricality in Painting
Nadeem Alam Feb 28, 2008Both meaningful genres depict emotions related to life, most of the time, emotions of tragedy, and in between cheerful emotions of joy, for a change!
Search for Origins of Mahayana Buddhism
mahmood Mahmood Nov 17, 2007The land of Pakistan is blessed with one of the most important treasures of the world, the glorious civilization of Buddhism flourishing in the North Western areas of Pakistan.
Sumera Jawad: The Excavated Linearity
Nadeem Alam Nov 10, 2007Sumera, through her brush, tries to explore the true image of contemporary woman by exhuming the historical representation of the South Asian woman.
The Green Palette
Nadeem Alam Sep 2, 2007Painting in Pakistan: the legacy of Anna Molka Ahmed, Zubeda Agha, Ustad Sharif, Allah Buksh, Chughtai, Sadequian and many others.
Women's Image and Imagery
Emma Alam Jul 19, 2007Sumera Jawad has excavated with her brush, the buried history by unveiling the “image” of women.
Memento Mori
Sidra Omer Feb 6, 2007Thoughtful and intriguing quotes, paintings and pictures on and about death and autopsies, gave the take-home message: live life, and embrace death.
Are Artists Really Mad?
Khalid Sohail Nov 9, 2006Creative people are are more at risk to suffer from mental illness than general population as creativity and insanity are genetically transmitted in the same families.
Sissy Fascists
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 17, 2006“Now I get it! If this is how our pop stars are thinking, I find myself to be wasting my time asking them to use there art for social and political causes. Of course you will never use your star status to talk about the Hudood Ordinance, now would y
Emotional Solitude
Kinza Yasar Jun 3, 2005My heart and my mind are two worlds apart,
But somehow, somewhere they will have to meet
The Utility of Art
A Shiraz May 25, 2005What could be the cause of an American’s life of “happy mediocrity”? Why do Americans spend their money on charity and space travel over artwork?
Karachi Kamera in San Francisco
Ras Siddiqui Jul 9, 2004“What is Karachi?” some of the replies heard were 1) “Karachi is something you smoke.” 2) “It’s a cheese.” ...
Charbagh
Bina Shah Dec 17, 2003Entering Gulgee’s gallery is like stepping into a wonderful surrealistic painting in which odd shapes, images, and objects stare at you as you pass by, giving you the feeling that you’ve turned into Alice and are stepping into Wonderland.
The Enigmatic Smile Lives On
Tariq Aqil Aug 26, 2003For her journey to America the Mona Lisa was in fact treated like nothing less than royalty.
Ghalib In California
Ras Siddiqui Jul 14, 2003To those of us who still retain the ability to “feel in Urdu” while writing exclusively in English, a Bazm gathering sometimes becomes a “must try to attend” part of our social calendar
The Headless Chicken Returns
Headless Chicken Feb 26, 2003After having gone incommunicado, Headless Chicken returns, almost incoherent, of course -- 'you would do the same after a week on the road in Pakistan, owwwwwow baaabeh!'
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