Durriya Kazi
In the last chapter of his book The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple gives a harrowing account of a massacre parallel...
Published 29 Apr, 2018 07:16am
“0 to 60 in Five Seconds;” “Drive it Like You Stole it;” “Lose Your Innocence in 3.9 Seconds” — these...
Published 08 Apr, 2018 06:48am
Every so often we see a Banyan sapling growing at an impossible location high up on a tall building, like a poet...
Published 11 Mar, 2018 06:55am
The posters I grew up with were the wonderful psychedelic pop art posters of the 1960s and ’70s. They were ...
Published 25 Feb, 2018 07:11am
The first time I realised that gypsies were not just characters in a film but real people was as a child when my...
Published 11 Feb, 2018 07:57am
The basti kids in front of my mother’s house have become avid snooker players, except the snooker table is a cloth...
Published 28 Jan, 2018 07:33am
Another academic year is about to begin. The number of young people wanting to study art and design is growing. ...
Published 14 Jan, 2018 08:24am
One rarely sees landscape paintings in art galleries. Landscape painting was always less about documenting...
Published 31 Dec, 2017 07:05am
Called ‘a space in between’, balconies are both public and private, and a connection with the world outside for women
Updated 24 Dec, 2017 06:52am
During a recent lecture I gave on the role of art and literature in Pakistani society, a gentleman asked what we...
Published 03 Dec, 2017 08:22am
Knowledge is often formally divided into the sciences and humanities — as if one can exist without the other —...
Published 19 Nov, 2017 09:24am
Iqbal Bhai Chamakpattiwala was putting the finishing touches on the tram he had decorated in the style of the W11 ...
Published 15 Oct, 2017 07:11am
A family friend Katja Neuburger, who escaped to London from a German concentration camp, briefly housed the...
Published 01 Oct, 2017 04:25am
In a time when expediency often takes precedence over morality, we overlook how much of our daily activity is based...
Published 10 Sep, 2017 08:38am
Shall we remember? Shall we forget? Shall we look to the future? Shall we bring along the past? They tell us we need...
Published 27 Aug, 2017 07:53am
Every human is 99.5 percent genetically identical to any other human. It is that 0.5 percent that makes each person...
Updated 14 Aug, 2017 11:40am
When my daughter was about three or four, and we grown-ups were busy talking, she would say in great frustration,...
Updated 31 Jul, 2017 02:38pm
There is an interconnectedness between gardens, literature and our desire for life
Updated 17 Jul, 2017 02:00pm
Unpaid lady health workers, a slow investigation of a target killing, electricity breakdowns — regardless of the cause
Published 02 Jul, 2017 06:58am
One thinks of architecture as designed buildings intended to, if not be permanent, at least exist a long time,...
Published 18 Jun, 2017 07:24am
