Pakistani crowned as ‘Funniest Man in India’

Posted on June 25, 2006
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Adil Najam As ATP had noted in a blogpost on 21 June, 2006, Indians are laughing at Pakistanis. In fact, they are laughing so hard that the ‘world largest democracy’ just voted a 40-year old Pakistani stand-up comic as the ‘Funniest Man in India.’ According to a news report at rediff.com: Pakistan’s Rauf Lala has […]

Translation: Hum daikhain gay

Posted on June 24, 2006
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Adil Najam The very first blogpost on ATP was the video tribute to Pakistan I had made using Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s classic poem ‘hum daikhain gay…’ This was not just blatant self-projection — although it was that too. It was an expression of my hopes and concerns, an acknowledgement of my gratitude to Faiz’s poetry, […]

Pinglish: Lost in translation

Posted on June 24, 2006
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This photograph was taken by Talha Masood on a Pakistan Railways train from Islamabad to Lahore. It first appeared, under this headline, in Talha’s weblog, My Cosmos, which is a wonderful chronicle on the life and times of Islamabad. For a picture taken by a cellphone camera, its quality is very good. But more than […]

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