Adil Najam This wonderful picture was published in the Daily Times (16 June, 2006) with the headline ‘Need for Speed’ and a caption that read “An employee of a filling station fills petrol in a bicycle that the owner has made a moped out of by putting an engine in it.” To me, this is […]
Adil Najam I have no idea what to make of this one, so let me just quote from a news-item titled “Habib Bank revises dress code notification at one branch” in The Daily Times (20 June, 2006). According to the report, Habib Bank Limited (HBL) sent a notification to all its Branches declaring a Western […]
Adil Najam baadshah-e-jahaaN, waali-e-maasivaa, naeb-ullah-e-fil-arz, dahakaaN ke naam [Dedicated to he who is the Emperor of the world, Lord of all things, God’s deputy on Earth; the peasant] There was a reason why, in his moving poem, intisaab (dedication) Faiz Ahmed Faiz reserves the single greatest line of reverance for the Dehkaan (peasant). This picture […]
