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I learned later that one of the federal ministers had cautioned the Punjab administration about the people attending the Kissan conference saying they were planning an uprising at the time of the 1977 elections The Punjab Council of Arts was proposing to hold a drama festival. Various theatre groups from all over Punjab were to […]

One can of course also argue that in today’s world it is appropriate that parents should prepare their children for the harsh and hard actualities. It is best they are instructed that there are no rainbows in the world, only scorching disparities and the wretched smell of pain. It is a world where children have

A modern artist in our countries must rely on his physical environment and firsthand experience. At the same time, he should not isolate himself from artists in the west. It is better to learn from others and move on than to stay put and ape oneself. Modernism is an invitation to an artist to be

 Asking for justice amounts to creating an illusion that justice can be done. The present set-up must go and be replaced by rule of law — the constitution and its auxiliary structures and institutions — before justice can be done. There is a homily about the stupidity of asking a bakra (goat) to stand guard

Herakleitos writes “All men think”. Do they really? We have been doing reasonably well without thinking, haven’t we all these 50 plus years? “Change alone is unchanging”, which is true, but hasn’t man changed for the worse in recent times? Ideas and values, the spirit of self-sacrifice, truth and courage are today scoffed at, as

Ghannia must have realised that he had achieved his best, there was nothing more to be done. He had no desire to perpetuate himself by even opening a proper restaurant. And like an artist, he chopped and fried the inner layer of the last onion of his life and melted away into another dimension like

Even some of the terribly upper class students wore blue jeans and tried dating lower class lasses who have always been much more handful than most of the toothy upper class dames who had great difficulty in getting their vowels out of themselves. Terry Thomas being the only exception,but then he was not a dame

 The religious ideologues try to appropriate every sphere of our life. They act as barbers, insisting how we should or should not shave or pluck hair. They act as tailors circumscribing the length of what Englishmen call the baggy trouser. They encroach on our love life and are haters of the rubber A time comes

 People of diverse ideological persuasions are coming together in the world today. People on both side of the Pakistan-India border want peace. Let us discard the clichés and traditional attitudes. Let us not reduce a dialogue to mine and thine. Let us build mutual confidence and strengthen the peace process. Let there be no losers

Absolute truths are a matter of faith and cannot be resolved through debate and discussion, through give and take, through consensus or compromise. They are by their very nature mostly established through force Last week I was in Islamabad at the invitation of Raja Changez Sultan, Director General of the Pakistan National Council of the