Mushtaq Soofi
Parents feel elated when their child starts asking; what’s this? What’s that? Question matters more than the...
Published 12 Jul, 2021 06:30am
Loonaywala brought us love songs and what could be a better gift than singing of love for a society with few reasons to be happy?
Published 05 Jul, 2021 11:56am
Folk music seems to be an essential element of our individual and collective make-up. Once music composer Ustad ...
Published 05 Jul, 2021 07:06am
In the ancient time when we were Sapta Sindhu (land of seven rivers) we had floating cities. Cities, ancient and...
Published 07 Jun, 2021 07:04am
“Our thoughts bring us to diverse callings, setting people apart: the carpenter seeks what is broken, the ...
Published 31 May, 2021 07:43am
Our people know each and everything under the sun. They even know what they aren’t supposed to know. They can tell...
Published 10 May, 2021 06:39am
“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them”, declares Nietzsche in his ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’. If we follow
Published 03 May, 2021 05:45am
It’s believed, not without reason, that we humans are part of animal kingdom. If we are part of animal kingdom it...
Published 26 Apr, 2021 07:00am
Have you thought as to how paradise and hell are described in the scriptures? Paradise is defined by the green,...
Published 12 Apr, 2021 07:31am
How to describe the life of one of the greatest sons of Lahore? Metaphors may help. Lamp [Charag] and flower ...
Published 05 Apr, 2021 06:29am
The last week’s column concluded thus: “the film industry nudged by narrow state ideology dug its own grave. Now...
Published 29 Mar, 2021 07:05am
In our society motherhood is much idealised. The role of mother is held up as an example of unconditional love and...
Published 15 Mar, 2021 05:59am
You drive out of your residential area and wait to be on the main road. Nobody slows or stops to give you way. After...
Published 08 Mar, 2021 07:31am
Short in stature he looked ordinary but would appear quite the opposite when he talked. No verbosity, no bombast....
Published 01 Mar, 2021 07:23am
One of the most distinguishing marks that defines us is our ability to use language as a tool of communication and...
Published 22 Feb, 2021 08:03am
Some scholars assert, perhaps rightly, that our region which implies the entire subcontinent, had no concept of law...
Published 08 Feb, 2021 05:30am
History invariably gets distorted; sometime due to a specific perspective and at times by deliberate intent in order...
Published 01 Feb, 2021 07:03am
Bar has been a magic word for our older generations for its paradoxical features; it has been the cradle of the...
Published 25 Jan, 2021 07:07am
Mian Muhammad Baksh in the 19th century was perhaps the first poet in our literary tradition who spoke of the gulf...
Published 18 Jan, 2021 07:00am
Louis Bunuel, a celebrated Spanish film maker, told his biographer after having settled in Mexico an anecdote about...
Published 11 Jan, 2021 07:30am