Gone too soon: Madeeha Gauhar, the founding director of Ajoka on June 5, 2018Within a month of an interview I conducted with Shahid and Sohail of Ajoka Theatre in the office adjoining Shahid and late Madeeha Gauhar’s residence, all of us knowing that “Mad” (as I teasingly called her), lay upstairs in her bedroom battling out the final stages of her war with colon cancer, her body finally, […]
When cultural activists joined hands after the Dhaka fall, to build a ‘new Pakistan’ — Part II on May 21, 2018Shahid Mahmood Nadeem, playwright and of late, the director of Ajoka in Lahore, and Sohail Warraich, a long time Ajoka member in various guises and capacities sat down with Fawzia Afzal-Khan for an exclusive interview to Daily Times. What has it been like getting involved in the day-to-day running of things in Ajoka over these […]
When cultural activists joined hands after the Dhaka fall, to build a ‘new Pakistan’ — Part I on May 19, 2018Shahid Mahmood Nadeem, playwright and of late, the director of Ajoka in Lahore, and Sohail Warraich, a long time Ajoka member in various guises and capacities sat down with Fawzia Afzal-Khan for an exclusive interview to Daily Times. When did you two join Ajoka? SW: It was founded by Madeeha Gauhar in 1983, so she […]