Binge-watching desi films
From the Blog beenasarwar My article in *The News on Sunday* on two film festivals in New York recently showcasing work from Pakistan and India. I wanted to write more about some of them but didn't have space. Maybe later. [image: mah-e-mir] Mah-e-Mir director Anjum Shehzad and producers Badar Ikram, Khurram Rana with Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi. Photo: Beena Sarwar *Desi audiences thronged to two recent film festivals in New York showcasing films from Pakistan and India* Many of the films in what is being heralded as a revival of Pakistan cinema feature the sprawling megapolis of Karachi. The multifaceted city's historic sandstone buildings, sandy beach, traditional tiles, boundless energy emerge in these films… dreamily romantic under a perpetual full moon (*Mah-e-Mir*), wildly eclectic (*Mailay*), effepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
[ہفتہ ٴ غزل] ۔ اہلِ نظر کی آنکھ میں تاج وہ کلاہ کیا ۔ امجد اسلام امجد
From the Blog ranaii-e-khayalغزل اہلِ نظر کی آنکھ میں تاج وہ کلاہ کیا سایا ہو جن پہ درد کا، اُن کو پناہ کیا؟ ٹھہرا ہے اِک نگاہ پہ سارا مقدّمہ کیسے وکیل! کون سا مُنصف! گواہ کیا! کرنے لگے ہو آٹھوں پہر کیوں خدا کو یاد؟ اُس بُت سے ہو گئی ہے کوئی رسم و راہ کیا ؟ اے ربِّ عدل تُو مری فردِ عمل کو چھوڑ بس یہ بتا کہ اِس میں ہے میرا گُناہ کیا؟ سارے فراق سال دُھواں بن کے اُڑ گئے ڈالی ہمارے حال پہ اُس نے نگاہ کیا کیا دل کے بعد آبروئے دل بھی رول دیں دکھلائیں اُس کو جاکے کہ یہ حالِ تباہ کیا؟ جو جِتنا کم بساط ہے، اُتنا ہے معتبر یارو یہ اہلِ فقر کی ہے بارگاہ ، کیا! کیسے کہیں کہ کر گئی اِک سانحے کے بیچ جادُو بھری وہ آنکھ، وہ جھکتی نگاہ کیا؟ (ق) وہ بر بنائے جبر ہو یا اقتضائے صبر ہر بُو لہوس سے کرتے رہو گے نباہ کیا ہر شے کی مثل ہوگی، کوئی بے کَسی کی حد؟ اس شہرِ بے ہُنر کا ہے دِن بھی سیاہ کیا رستے میں تھیں غنیم کے پُھولوں کی pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Protection of Minorities Bill: Brilliant!
From the Blog pakteahouse Naeem Asgher Tarar On 24th November, Sindh assembly outmaneuvered all other provinces by passing a law which is for protecting the minorities of the province from the evil of forced conversions. It is about time that a bill like this should have been brought, signed into law and implemented throughout the province, but even now it is felicitous and a big sigh of relief for the people of different minorities, who were being molested and threatened. I do believe that laws like this should be made and implemented in other provinces of Pakistan too, but in Sindh, the need was more dire and desperate. According to ECP records, Hindu community constitutes the largest minority, which is registered in Sindh, along with Christians and Parsis. In Karachi alone, 81,589 of the regipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Against All Odds
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* In a village in Raiwind, Lahore, a little boy would sit in a basket attached to his father's bicycle and repeat mathematics multiplication tables that his father would chant aloud for his son to memorise. In the evenings, after a long, tiring day in the fields herding cattle, the shepherd would ask his son to repeat each table. This was the beginning of Ghulam Dastgir's education: multiplying numbers under a hot sun, the air thick with the scent of earth, scarcity and not-yet ripe dreams. "My father was very bright but could not get the education he always wanted," Dastgir says, "That's why he wanted for us what he could never have." We're sitting at The City School's Alpha campus in Lahore, and amidst the intermittent ringing of the school bell and hyperacpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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