The mad genius of Aamir Zaki
Madeeha Syed revisits her interactions with one of Pakistan's best guitarists. They say he is one of the greatest minds that the Pakistani music industry has ever harboured, that his talent knows no...
View ArticleShacking up with music (Part one)
Madeeha Syed gets through high security for a backstage peek at the most elusive recording studio in town. I drive several miles out of the main centre of the city, cross a bridge into an area...
View ArticleMichael Jackson is in all of us
Desis made the King of Pop one of their own a long time ago, writes Huma Yusuf. One of my best friends and I first started talking because of Michael Jackson. It was 1991, and satellite dishes were...
View ArticleTeam bonding
Pakistani men are good together. Hell, they’re great together. Watch them in the dhaba, at the office, on the cricket pitch: in their interactions there’s an ease and familiarity. These thoughts...
View ArticleThe purest forms of art
Dawn recently printed an article by Huma Yusuf titled ‘Beyond the Culture War’. The article was a brave and imaginative discussion of various issues concerning the possible uses of the arts in...
View ArticleTuned out by The New York Times
A few weeks ago, The New York Times was thoughtful enough to do a little feature in a video blog titled 'Tuning out the Taliban'. From the title it seemed like this was a motivational video made by the...
View ArticleMusic vs. militancy
Even though Pakistan is bleeding from terrorism and suicide bombings, no mainstream pop music artist has come close to condemning or questioning the spread of militancy through music and lyrics. A...
View ArticleFollowing the music … to nowhere
For some reason I expected something more exciting from Salman Ahmed. But after listening to his speech at the Aga Khan University Hospital yesterday I came to the conclusion that the title of his...
View ArticleKing Qzer takes on Karachi
Recently, my six-year-old daughter accompanied me to a football freestyle event at a local mall. Needless to say, we had a blast as rap and hip hop blared in the background and desi kids ranging from...
View ArticleMeet the opportunists
I have never been able to understand the cultural dynamics of what is called the Pakistan fashion industry, particularly the notion of holding ‘fashion weeks’ which, at least to me, seem to last for...
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