Published in the Daily Times on March 119th 2012 The LUMS Abdus Salam Chair, once established, will be responsible to work in the spirit of everything that embodies Dr. Salam, who was inspired by the Quran for his ideas on the electro-weak theory and ‘Theory of...
Published in The Friday Times on March 2nd 2012 Aisha Sarwari reviews Blue Dust, Ayesha Salman's bold new novel about three generations of Pakistani women If you're looking for prose of the level of Margaret Atwood or Joyce Carol Oates, Ayesha Salman's Blue Dust will be a...
Published in the Daily Times on March 15th 2009 The Pakistani lawyers’ movement is on a collision course with the establishment. The country, entirely without stratification resonates its restlessness with this movement, and soon either the judiciary will get some semblance of fairness or a lot...
A film by Deepa Mehta Any film on domestic violence is not an easy one to make; Deepa Metha is getting some vitriolic reviews from India for directing a film limited in technique, plot and dialogue. This barrage of misguided critique is in fact the very...
Published April 19th 2009 Mukhtar Mai, Glamour Magazine’s woman of the year 2005, ties the knot, for reasons she defines as “to support women’s rights.” I hope that this woman who has not backed down in the face of oppression in the name of culture, tradition...
April 7th 2009 There are so many ways for Americans to find themselves if they are lost: They can read Eyewitness to America, an anthology of people who were there when the US was created; they could go to Gettysburg or heck, just rent the TVC;...
July 7th 2009. When an iconic figure like Michael Jackson stops breathing, it’s a sad moment. There are those attempting to make it less of a sad moment, recounting news flashes about others dying in wars and drones, hunger and disease. True, that happens every day. Neglect...
August 19th 2009. Vulgarity is vulgarity, no matter what mouth it comes out of – Maya Angelou Well then so is bullshit. Because that is what it would be called if someone asked President Obama in a public forum what his wife, Michalle Obama thought about the...
The Bell Jar “How was the fur show?” Esther Greenwood, a young woman from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts is not interested in the fur show. But that doesn’t stop her from going though the routine of asking an acquaintance about the event. The story of this...
Published in The Daily Times on November 10th 2010 Being elected to the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has made Asma Jahangir the bearer of great expectations for all progressives and liberals in the country who, until now, were holding their breath, looking at events unfold...