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Profile: A perceptive poet
When I reached her daughter’s house in Karachi to meet the eminent Urdu language poet and writer Shabnam Shakeel, she…
Animadversion: Rock me
Rock of Ages is the new hard-core vintage designed musical starring a stack load of ‘good’ actors in wasted makeup.…
Hockey: Fingers crossed
At the recently concluded Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia, India stood on the victory stand with…
Past Present: The real revolution
When a society becomes politically unstable, economically weak and socially disintegrated, people become concerned about reformation and change. Pessimists regard…
Double click: Casualties of war
Canada celebrated 145 years of its sovereignty on Saturday, July 1 this year: the date it was recognised as an…
Eulogy: Infinite income
From our first meeting in what was perhaps 1968 to our last meeting 44 years later, just a few weeks…
Gardening: Get down on it
With half of the year already behind us — and the monsoon starting to brew — it is time to…
