The author is a culture critic based in Lahore
Fifty years after her death, Kesar Bai Kerkar is still ranked as one of the greatest kheyal gaikas
A first-hand account by Zafarullah Poshni, who was convicted and imprisoned in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case in 1951
Abid Ali had the resource and reserve to play roles across the ethnic spectrum that ensured his popularity and longevity as an actor
Why has great drama not been written in the subcontinent? The answers are many, intriguing too
Anwar Maqsood’s play, Naach Na Jaanay, highlights the tragic condition of performing artistes but not without his characteristic one-liners
There are very few left in India who enjoyed kinship with Lahore. Music maestro Muhammed Zahur ‘Khayyam’ Hashmi was one of them
How current technological interventions are changing music-making and overall tastes in music
Alhamra Theatre Festival brings forward fresh interpretations of popular plays
Perhaps we are on the cusp of redefining music and its making which may be different or at variance with our conventional understanding of...
Culture always supports or forms the bedrock of political separateness
The poet was was not unsympathetic to the progressive movement; he wrote his early poetry under that influence
It is important to recall and remember the Punjabi poets, their lives and works because as it is, Punjabi has been pushed into a corner
Will the decision of the British Museum to return artefacts to the Afghan government undo injustices of history?
The book looks into the statecraft and politics of Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, besides the many fables that surrounded her
Ghulam Haider was one for the theoretical aspects of music and did not limit himself to its practice
Even though Attaullah Esakhelvi is the authentic voice of the new emerging culture of Pakistan, his contribution is not duly acknowledged
A literary quest to understand the culture of our land
Tracing Girish Karnad’s journey that began with secular traditions and ended with a fight against extremist attitudes
Enver Sajjad was an avant-garde writer who was castigated by those who looked at the arts as a handmaiden of politics
The stress on trying out something new can result in the loss of centre that is supposed to put everything in some order
