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• the two insomnias
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• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Peter Gabriel- Signal to noise
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• Old Nusrat recordings dressed up in dub reggae beats
• Allah Hoo by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Lovers have nothing to do with existence
• Support the documentary on Dr Abdus Salam
• In memoriam – Asim Butt (1978-2010)
• Kaifi & I
• Magic moments – incredible photos on mysticism
• Writing fiction
• On Nietzsche
• I become like a pen

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Posts Archive

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• Asim Butt's mural for T2F, Karachi
• T2F remembers Asim Butt
• Haris Gazdar at the memorial
• Asim's friends will always miss him
• George recites his poem
• Sabeen speaking about Asim Butt
• In attendance -
• The tribute to Asim Butt
• Asim's picture published by GT
• Another mural for The Second Floor-Asim Butt

Pak Tea House

• Pakistan, the Lost Generation
• Now India and Pakistan Can Get Down to Business
• So What Is PML-N Going To Do About This?
• Never A Lamentation
• Wake up Punjab
• Zardari signs 2 laws aimed at protecting working class
• “Hakeem” Zaid Hamid
• Wake Up Call For Civil Society
• Technology Betrayal Continued
• Technology Betrayal

Development Industry

• Learn from the UK. Open up data sources in South Asia
• Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge
• State of research in Pakistan…
• Reforming Pakistan Civil Service
• Pakistan – Restructuring of PSEs
• Newinpk
• PAKISTAN: Reinventing microfinance
• Dissent as Democracy
• Pakistan 4th on regional list of adult illiterates
• International Development Law Organization on Davos

World music on NPR

• Los Amigos Invisibles: A 'Commercial' Breakthrough
• The Thistle And Shamrock: Welsh Roots
• SXSW 2010 Preview
• Elis Regina: The Feeling Between The Notes
• Omara Portuondo: Tiny Desk Concert
• The Chieftains And Ry Cooder Tell 'San Patricio' History
• The Thistle And Shamrock: New Gaelic Voices

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EMail

• West Bengal in turmoil – end of an era? - 2 emails
• Imam Hussain: The Beloved of the Beloved - 1 email
• Shah Ast Hussain - 1 email
• Holi has a Muslim History too - 1 email
• On Bhagat Singh, his vision and Jinnah’s support for his struggle - 1 email
• Voices of the oppressed – Dalit literature - 1 email

Pages

• “Man-Bitten” Ghalib: introducing himself
• “Seeds of peace on cricket field”
• ‘Author’s Plea’- Foreword of Aag ka Dariya by Qurutul-ain-Haider
• ‘O City of Lights’ by Khalid Hasan – A book review
• About Thumri
• Adieu Naguib Mahfouz
• adsense sample
• Amrita Pritam is no more 2/6
• Amrita Sher Gil’s Lahore
• An Essay on Nizamuddin by Marta Franceschini
• Basant Moods – Lahore and Beyond
• Beautiful Bird
• Bulleh Shah and Rumi 2/5
• Contact
• Dhaka by degrees
• Dhaka by Degrees – TFT
• Documents Archive
  • “Iraq’s four-year looting frenzy, the allies have become the vandals”
  • “step into the tavern of ruins..”
  • A little more recogniton..
  • A Little poem
  • A recent Book on Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  • Against Forgetting and No Poem is Mine
  • Another accidental painting
  • Fresh translations of Faiz
  • Glimpses of nineteenth century Iran
  • Go not without me
  • Hope – A poem by Ayesha Salman
  • How Art made the World
  • How the British Raj took roots in India
  • I finally moved here – “You lack a foot to travel?”
  • Little Flute, Why So Proud?
  • Master strokes
  • Mother Goddess – Indus Valley
  • Murree Ghosts – my recent painting
  • Music Master
  • My Journey (Mera Safar): Ali Sardar Jafri
  • New paintings inspired by the golden Bengal
  • New translations of Parveen Shakir
  • No Tolerance for Richistans – Obscene Wealth is not victimless!
  • Ominous shadows
  • Pakistani media – an alternative view
  • Qurratulain Hyder
  • Sonargaon – A poem by HUR
  • Story of a Painting – Mehrgarh, Indus and Ghalib
  • Sufi Zikr – inspiration for a painting
  • The rescued letter of Mahatama Gandhi
  • Waves of anger and fear…
  • Welcome Hatshepsut
  • What is arrogance?
• Faiz translated by Vikram Seth
• Faiz translations (by Rehan)
• Femme Feryal
• Halaku, when you will come to Baghdad this time…
• I found Roses in Konya… 2/3
• I found Roses in Konya… 3/3
• I will meet you yet again – Amrita Pritam
• Ideology of intolerance
• Images from Data Saheb’s Shrine
• Images from Mahboob Ali
• Jal gaya tha ik roshniyon ka shaher
• Kafka Country – published in the Friday Times
• Kafka Country published in the Friday Times
• Links
  • Ali Sethi visits a silenced drummer in Lahore
• More of Bulleh Shah – keep swooning
• Mughal Princess Zebunnissa
• Muhammad’s Sword
• Muslim Bloggers from India
• On ‘The Great War for Civilisation’
• On Qurratulain Hyder –
• On Vidya Rao
• Open the Door
• Peace to Beirut with all my heart… 2/3
• Petal to Petal …..More of Parveen Shakir
• Qasmi – Urdu literature mourns a giant 2/4
• Qasmi, Literary Fueds and National Neglect
• Rare objects discovery points to ruins treasure
• Raza Rumi
• Revisiting Kabir – the Weaver, the Myth, the Master
• Sadequain 20 years later
• Shared visions: Khushwant Singh and Fahmida Riaz 2/2
• Standing Alone in Mecca (book review)
• Surveys show that Pakistanis (and Muslims) reject “terrorism”
• Teray Ishq Nachaya – Bulleh Shah – full text
• The Lost Jewel – Rediscovering Hazrat Ali’s Letter
• The roar of Rumi – 800 years on
• The Sultan of Hearts – Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
• This world without Dr. Schimmel… 2/3
• Tum bilkul hum jaisey nikley
• Ustad Bismillah Khan is no more
• Web resources on Qurrutalain Hyder
• Why I love Pakistan? Top 5 reasons
• Darwin and the grand unity of life
• Khusrau: The shadow of power

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