Now you know why the world price of gold has been going up!
This couple celebrated their first wedding anniversary last week. So, I guess it is time to congratulate them by putting this picture up.
I have been looking for this since I started ATP and finally found it on Asma’s highly recommended blog Reflection of […]
Adil Najam
Update: here.
ATP has been following the developing story about the reported destruction of a Hindu temple in Rangmahal, Lahore. We first wrote about the initial reports on June 14 and then gave a detailed account of how how events were unfolding, on June 17. At that point, the ‘facts’ of the story (as opposed […]
By S A J Shirazi
Traveling whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel […]
Adil Najam
I have been so much wanting to put this one up as the picture of the day. Just because it is such a striking composition photographically.
The title I have used ‘Levitating Lyari-boy‘ is the title originally used by the photographer, Ali Khurshid, whose other work of Karachi Beaches (as displayed on flickr.com and elsewhere) […]
The Onion is a satirical parody ‘newspaper’ which is published in print and on the Internet that reports both real and imagined stories and makes fun of the earnestness of the mainstream news-media, the gullibility of its readers, and the general state of the world we live in. However, as with all satire, it tends […]
Adil Najam
Bahauddin Zakariya Univeristy (BZU) in Multan is going to begin full-fledged MA Seraiki classes. This is good news. Seraiki is an ancient language with a prestigious intellectual history and a rich literature, especially poetry. As with most regional languages in Pakistan, we have not done full justice in nourishing this heritage.
There is also much […]
A sufi qawall offering his devotional music at Data Saab’s in Lahore.
I, too, am a fan of the so-called ‘Sufi Rock‘, but I sometimes wonder that instead of triggering a broader interest in Sufi music, it might have distracted attention from the ‘real thing’.
(Original uploaded on Flickr.com by peterhessel).
