2 Photos 2 Stories

Posted on January 23, 2009
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Asma Mirza Photo news stories used to be a regular feature of ATP. See here, here and here. I am reviving the tradition here. Oh, but the title should not be mixed with akhbar-e-jahaaN‘s series of ‘3 auraten 3 kahaniaan’. If you are looking for fiction, you probably won’t find it here. Below are life […]

Sufi Islam in South Asia

Posted on January 22, 2009
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Fawad Every year, The Economist magazine prints a delightful ‘special holiday double issue” around Christmas. It is filled with unfailingly interesting essays on an amazingly wide array of subjects. This year’s piece de resistance is the essay on South Asian Sufi Islam titled “Of Saints and Sinners”. The essay is a wonderfully reported depiction of […]

Inspiration Pakistan: Mooba rehRay wala

Posted on January 20, 2009
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S.A.J Shirazi Setting eyes on Maqbool and his mule cart for the first time, one could be forgiven for thinking that he belongs to a working class endeavoring for survival. His shabby dress and toes peeping out of slippers too large for him, do not project an image of a contented and happy man who […]

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