Adil Najam Readers of this blog know the reverence in which I hold Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The video tribute that I had done based on his hum daikhain gay was not only the very first post on this blog but serves at the ATP Credo – a symbol of our hopes, our aspirations and also […]
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 […]
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 […]
