More thoughts on song and poetry

Posted on August 14, 2006
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This post really continues from a previous (here) and a future (here) post. Folloiwing from the earlier ATP post on the new music video on Mehdi Hasan’s ‘yeh watan tumhara hai,‘ I just wanted to share a few still images from the music video to show what is making so many of us think of […]

Mera Pakistan, Meri Pakistaniat

Posted on August 13, 2006
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Today is a good day to talk about ‘Pakistaniat.’ The name of this blog is ‘All Things Pakistan’ or ATP. But the title in the URL is ‘Pakistaniat’ which would loosely translate as ‘Pakistani-ness.’ The blog is named thus because it was borne out of a conversation with a friend on what makes a Pakistani […]

Sa’adi: Why not teach what we used to?

Posted on August 12, 2006
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Adil Najam Raza Rumi’s blog (Jahan e Rumi) is always worth a visit. Today, I found there these wonderful English and urdu translations of Saa’di (below). But what really caught my eye was this comment from Raza which I thought was pertinent related to our own discussion on education here at ATP: [Saa’di’s] Gulistan and […]

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