[caption id="attachment_216" align="alignleft" width="600"] Girls on phone camera footage clapping to a wedding song[/caption] Published in the Daily Times on June 9th 2012 While the rest of the world fights for an equal payday for women and women empowerment principles in the corporate world, Pakistan remains, according...
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...
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...
In 2001 I had the opportunity to Interview Sir Christopher Lee for a radio show I produced for Pakistan News Service in California. – Aisha Aisha Sarwari: Sir Christopher Lee, we are honored to have you here on the show (Previously Pakistan News Service), thank you for...
Published in The Friday Times on November 25th- December 1st 2011 JK Rowling began her 2008 commencement address at Harvard by saying that she will close her eyes and imagine she is at a Griffindor reunion. And there was something like that at the dastangoi performance...
Published on Pakistaniat.com on January 12th 2011 The Faiz Foundation in collaboration with Bank Alfalah has just produced and will soon release a new CD of Tina SaniFaiz Ahmed Faiz singing . Along with Iqbal Bano and Nayyara Noor, Tina Sani is one of the singers...
Published on pakistaniat.com on November 30th 2010 The Mard-e-Momin as a form of national identity is overrated. So is the concept of the collective morality and the religious honor that gets everyone keyed up, ready to take up arms against an aggressor. The biggest aggressor, after...
Published on Chowk.com on March 2nd 2011 How you meet a book is important. I was in a leading Karachi bookstore browsing the new books session when an attendant stacked new plastic clad books of Moni Mohsin’s Tender Hooks. I was reading Faiz Ahmed Faiz at the...
Published on Chowk.com on Dec 12th 2011 You don’t know till you are half way through the book that the protagonist in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, is beautiful – and you don’t figure out till the end how symbolic her beauty is. The novel...
