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Abida Parveen
I do not perform for people. I perform for Him. In that moment, it is Maula who connects me to the audience and to myself. Woh zaat nazar naheen aati magar karti sub kuch wohi hai. Whose eyes and hands are actually at work? Banda aur Khuda — they are never apart. My prayer is […]
Pakistan: The Pendulum from Sacred to Profane
History of Pakistan is always fraught with curious, if earnest sometimes, attempts to search for clues to conspiracies. What role did the Hindu-dominated Congress play to oust a formidable minority from India? Some ask. And we have the divide and rule policy of the British to pin the entire burden on as if Indians did […]
Quranic Hermeneutics: New Avenues
The Quran is the source of ethics and guidance for all Muslims. In fact, the divine book has been given to Prophet Muhammad who was sent to the whole mankind. The traditions of the Prophet have always been believed to be the interpretations by words and deeds of the Quran. But traditions can never claim […]
Shekhina: To Disarm Our Heart
On the Wings of Shekhinah Rediscovering Judaism’s Divine Feminine Leah Novick Quest Books 09/08 Paperback $17.95 ISBN: 9780835608619 Rabbi Leah Novick is a pioneer in restoring the Divine Feminine to contemporary Judaism. She is active in the Jewish Renewal movement and leads workshops around the globe. In a time when the world yearns for […]
Movie Review: Dedh Ishqiya
“Dedh Ishqiya”, one of the most probable, unconventional new-age sequels from Bollywood, is a hard movie to categorize: it is a lumpy, sharp-tasting mix of emotions that’s immaculately written, directed and acted – and yet isn’t remarkable. The opening, with the black screen voice over story about a female parrot that corrupts a pair of […]
A Moving Art Gallery without Walls
In the summer of 2002, two Pakistani artists were brought to Smithsonian Folklife Festival along with a 1976 Bedford truck. They were Hyder Ali and Jamiluddin from Karachi’s Garden Road area, famous for vehicle decoration. As outdoor artists-in-residence they decorated the Bedford top to bottom in front of curious onlookers at Washington, D.C. Now, that […]
Have a Dabba @ Home
I recently happened to watch Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi, a 2012 Bollywood movie with the cast of Boman Irani and popular accomplished choreographer –turned-director Farah Khan. The romantic comedy revolves around two middle-aged Parsis, Farhad and Shirin and their baffled courtship which they try to work out into a happy marriage. The film […]
Pakistan: Culture Revisited
Ten things we love about Pakistan Under the head, one in a collection of beautiful writings in theCritical Muslim issue 04 on Pakistan, the editors include People, Poetry, Classical Novels, Young Talent, Paklish (That is how English got decolonized in Pakistan), Ingenuity or the can-do attitude of the Pakistani people, Sweets, Mountains and Mangoes, Missiles, […]
Beyond Strives To Becoming
How does one make sense of the sectarian strives in Pakistan. Those implode the country gradually but threateningly. Some analysts consider sectarian strife as being at the centre of the political and social identity of Pakistan. According to them, Pakistan was formed out of the misconception that the Muslims who were to settle in a […]
Babasaheb’s Pakistan
Pakistan can’t be undone. It could have been, we desired as children gloating over the prospect of a well-organized cricket team-‘our’ batsmen and ‘their bowlers’-panning out as an undefeatable and formidable sporting monolith. The concern of Ayesha Jalal, post Partition, was more serious, transcending as it is the verve and glamour of sports towards the […]
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