Durriya Kazi
The city is full of noise and chaos. Speeding cars, buses, motorbikes and rickshaws weave through any available gap,...
Updated 31 Jul, 2020 07:28am
The Turkish television series, Diliris:ertugrul, has taken Pakistan by storm. Setting aside the impact of a gripping...
Updated 19 Jul, 2020 03:33pm
John Lennon said, “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from...
Published 05 Jul, 2020 07:04am
The recent protests in the US have reawakened the legacy of slavery. Yet, even after eight generations, black communities in these countries are still seen through the prism of slavery.
Published 24 Jun, 2020 03:58pm
The news from across the world gets more grim: shut downs or their violations, predictions of the looming economic...
Published 07 Jun, 2020 06:55am
Socialising the young to uphold collective values and behaviour was once the responsibility of a family or a tribe....
Published 24 May, 2020 05:26am
Artist Anwar Saeed once found himself alone all day at a friend’s house, without a pencil or pen to be seen. ...
Published 10 May, 2020 06:42am
In 1815, the earth’s biggest volcanic eruption in 10,000 years tore apart Mount Tambora in Indonesia. By the...
Published 26 Apr, 2020 06:05am
The tragic rows of wooden coffins in Italy, waiting for a lonely burial, are images difficult to erase. Live data of...
Published 12 Apr, 2020 07:06am
The American painter Mary Cassatt moved to Paris in 1874 and, after a visit to her studio by the French...
Published 29 Mar, 2020 07:37am
“Aurat ke sirf teen roop hotay hain — maan, biwi aur tawaif” [a woman has only three identities — mother,...
Published 15 Mar, 2020 08:05am
Dépaysement, a French word whose literal meaning is ‘to be without a country,’ describes the sense of...
Published 23 Feb, 2020 07:19am
Solomon David Road, Ali Budha Street and Shivadas Street lie parallel to each other off Barnes Street in Ranchore...
Published 02 Feb, 2020 07:58am
“The poet was the most respectable member, sometimes leader, of the tribe.
Published 19 Jan, 2020 08:23am
At this year’s Art and Design Degree Show at the University of Karachi, I was taken aback by the darkness that ...
Published 05 Jan, 2020 07:40am
The subconscious mind manages 95 percent of the brain’s capacity. Humans receive two million bits of information...
Published 22 Dec, 2019 07:53am
The most mesmerising feature of the night sky is the moon, when it first shows itself as a fine sliver for a few...
Published 08 Dec, 2019 07:29am
Artists are naturally drawn to uncertainty, even chaos, within which they find underlying patterns or a glimpse into...
Published 24 Nov, 2019 07:57am
As a norm, society does not take art or artists very seriously — entertaining, stimulating, thought-provoking and...
Published 10 Nov, 2019 06:57am
Most people experience the anxiety and fear of losing their memory. Schoolchildren, orators, stage actors and...
Published 20 Oct, 2019 07:00am
