Adil Najam It is both sad and surprising that the NWFP gets such little credit for its cultural and intellectual contributions to contemporary Pakistan despite the immense impact that artists and intellectuals from the NWFP have had. Of course, the Frontier is not the only part of the country whose contributions get drowned out amidst […]

Adil Najam After all the trouble we went through to time our Eid posts (here, here, here, here, here, here) so they could be enjoyed by people in different time zones around the world, it turns out that ‘official’ Eid in Pakistan will be on Wednesday. Of course, the ‘unofficial’ Eid’s have already been celebrated […]

Owais Mughal During the discussion in our Bazm-e-Eid Mehfil, there was an interesting to-and-from inititaed by Mast Qalandar on the following shey’r: Eid ka din hai, gallay aaj tou mill lay zalim rasm-i-duniya bhi hai, moqa bhi hai, dastoor bhi hai I just found this video of a Lollywood film song built around what seems […]