Remembering Edgar Allan Poe on his 211th birth anniversaryBy: Minaal Mohsin Maan on January 22, 2020Famous writer, poet and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 into a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts to David Poe Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. He was taken in by John Allan, a successful tobacco merchant after being abandoned by his father and losing his mother to tuberculosis. Poe […]
A waning vocation of potteryBy: Gulsher Panhwer on January 22, 2020One of the world’s largest civilisations, Mohenjo Daro was discovered after some villagers brought some broken pottery to Archaeological Survey of India director general Sir John Marshall around 1924. This showed that the profession of potter dates back to 5000 BC and was in practices in Sindh and other parts of Pakistan even before Moen […]
Raju Jamil recalls ‘Uncle Urfi’ amidst ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’ frenzyBy: By Muhammad Ali on January 22, 2020Raju Jamil is a figure associated with the Pakistani drama industry ever-since its inception, and unlike many other veteran actors, is well-informed about the facts and figures of Pakistan’s drama productions. He possesses a good memory and is therefore still an authentic source when it comes to the analysis of television projects. His confidence in […]
Annual learning event for children and teachers Hamein Kitab Chahiyeh comes to LahoreBy: Staff Report on January 22, 2020The Annual Children’s Literature Festival is back in Lahore at the Children Library Complex (CLC), a purpose built facility of the School Education Department Govt. of Punjab from January 21 to 23, 2020. This is the 64th Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) and 7th Teacher’s Literature Festival (TLF) since November 2011 when CLF was first launched […]
PTDC announces “Cholistan Jeep Rally” on Feb 13, 2020: Asif MehmoodBy: APP on January 21, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation(PTDC) has completed a grand resort to cater visitors and was all set to kick off three day Desert Jeep Rally in South Punjab from February 13, 2020, announced the Punjab Chief Minister’s adviser Asif Mehmood on Tuesday. Talking to a private news channel, he stated that since 2005 PTDC had […]
Remembering the famous Punjabi poet and writer Ahmad RahiBy: Amjad Parvez on January 21, 2020I remember meeting poet and writer Ahmad Rahi sitting on a chair in a shop on Montgomery Road, Lahore many years ago. Probably because that area used to be hub of film line peoples’ offices surrounding Lakshami Chowk. He looked to be simple man clad in modest attire with a cigarette in his fingers. Despite […]
Time to break stereotypical thinking!By: Minahil Afzal on January 21, 2020It is 2020 and still most of the members of our society hold the same thinking! Why should they even? Now, coming to the point that is making our girls or daughters marry at an early age and not giving them enough opportunity to study further even those families possess a lot of wealth. Despite […]
Producer Nausheen Agha files FIR against Aagha Ali and Hina AltafBy: Haider Rifaat on January 21, 2020Islamabad-based producer Nausheen Agha registered first information report complaint last week holding actors Aagha Ali and Hina Altaf for allegedly abandoning an ongoing drama production and taking a hefty sum of money with them. Director Sohail Iftikhar Khan and Production Manager Gul Zaib Nawaz also came under fire for a similar offence. What led to […]
Shahid Nadeem invited to deliver World Theatre Day message in FranceBy: Staff Report on January 21, 2020Journalist and playwright Shahid Nadeem has been invited to deliver the official message on the World Theatre Day 2020 by the International Theatre Institute. The event will be held at the ITI’s UNESCO headquarters in Paris in March this year. The message will also be translated in 60 languages and distributed worldwide. In their invitation […]
Hyderabad — a city where history reveals the storiesBy: Raana Kanwal on January 20, 2020Long to investigate something more than we might suspect yet do not have the foggiest idea what to investigate, drive to the city of Muslim heads Hyderabad where history addresses the present. We as a whole have alternate points of view about history some simply take it as a period that passed and some accept […]