Dawn, The Review, July 13-19, 2000 Alexander the Great can be singled out as a figure in human history who has inspired every generation in almost all regions of the world for twenty-three centuries without being founder of any religion. It can be said that each age has re-evaluated the meaning of Alexander’s life in […]
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Dawn, The Review, in May 25-31, 2000 Every society carries two evils in its wake. The first is a desire for conformity. The second, arising out of it, is a vengeance against anyone who stands out as different. This is true of any society, irrespective of its form of government. Be it a monarchy or
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Dawn The Review, sometime in June 1999 There were better days. Karachi used to be a different city. Stage plays were in vogue and people from a cross-section of the society used to throng the auditoriums. That was the early 1950’s. And that is when Latif Kapadia started. He was born on 27 March, 1935,
Dawn, The Review, May 13-19, 1999 There seems to be no rest for the poor soul of Saadat Hasan Manto. While he was alive the conservatives held him in abuse for advocating women’s freedom. Now, in the so-called post-feminist age of literary criticism he seems to have become a popular target for energetic novices of
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Dawn Tuesday Review, 6-12 May 1999 It is hard to forget Allan, the most loveable conman of our television. The tall, lean character with a quizzical smile on his face, a new trick up his sleeve and, alas, an innocent stooge for his companion to upset all his schemes every week. Alif Noon went on
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This is a review of the book Bayad-i-Suhbat-i-Nazuk Khayalan, published in Herald, sometime in 1998 The biographical sketches contained in this book are based on the memories of the author, who had long term associations with most of the celebrities described here. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Dr. Taseer, Majeed Malik, Noon Meem Rashid, Mohammad Hasan Askari
Zameen, sometime in 1998 Having imbibed the classical heritage of Indo-Muslim literature, Islamic history and puritanical etiquette on one hand and such profane interests as playwriting on the other, Fatima Surayya Bajiya is someone who is likely to find herself equally at home with the younger generation as well as the old. “I am more
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Herald, sometime in 1998 Khwab Farosh By Ahmed Dawood Published by Dost Publications, Islamabad Price: Rs. 100 Khwab Farosh, published almost three years after the death of its author, is perhaps the last collection of Urdu short stories by Ahmed Dawood. “You remember the good old days when love had not shifted to prohibited territory
This article was published in Herald, June 1998, with the caption, “Muhammad Iqbal, the poet philosopher of the East, journeyed through at least four distinct phases in his experience of God.” In light of my subsequent research, I feel the need to revise many of the observations presented here, mainly because I feel that at
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