KARACHI: National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) turned nine last week, even though their journey seems much longer. After all, it takes more than just infrastructure to provide education in a craft that is still socially unacceptable at large. However, the faculty at Napa hasn’t shied away from this; their upcoming International Theatre Festival seems […]
KARACHI: It was an event that brought the likes of Indian actor Shabana Azmi, Hollywood actor Roger Ashton-Griffith, Indian director Onir and Neil McCarthy of the Independent Film Trust (London) to Karachi. Azmi, Griffith and McCarthy are also a part of the official festival jury that will be judging the submissions at the festival. The […]
THE response to the piece on the best 10 Urdu autobiographies (Jan 27) has been so overwhelming that today I`m trying to present a list of the best 10 Urdu novels. Just like the previous one, this list is based on importance, relevance, readability and literary and cultural value. It is in chronological order and, […]
PESHAWAR: Three back-to-back explosions occurred inside Peshawar’s Shama Cinema on Tuesday, killing 11 people and leaving at least 19 others injured. According to Dawn News, multiple explosions occurred when a show was ongoing in the cinema. Subsequently, 11 people were killed whereas 19 others were injured, an official at Lady Reading Hospital, Syed Jameel Shah, […]
Thousands of young enthusiasts from all over the world gathered in Pakistan’s largest city this week to participate in the 21st Karachi Hate-literature Festival, startling critics who could not believe such a large number of people in the country could actually read. “I want to blow myself up and kill all the liberals,” said Ghamgeen […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has demanded a transparent inquiry into the abduction and murder of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker in Karachi and called for probing complaints by the party of extrajudicial killing and illegal detention of its workers. In a press statement issued on Monday, HRCP said: “The MQM […]
Karachi: If not for the dazzling Shabana Azmi, the red carpet event of the 1st Sindh International Film Festival at the Nueplex Cinema on Monday would have been a pretty drab affair. The film screening event, which is taking place in collaboration with the UK-based Raindance Film Festival and Independent Film Trust, was marred by […]
LAHORE: The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) has launched a skills development project for youth ‘Green Skills Project’ in Islamabad. The project’s objective is to impart knowledge about renewable/sustainable energy, livestock management and crop administration to 300 provincial participants to achieve sustainable financial and environmental results. Minister of State for Education Trainings and Standards […]
LitFests as ‘cultural apparatus’ Arather systematic analysis of western cultural industries from a Marxist perspective began in earnest in the 1950s when a cohort of radical intellectuals – Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Raymond Williams, C H Mills, Herbert Marcuse, Ralph Miliband, and E P Thompson – began to investigate the centrality of what they sometimes […]
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