Aqeeq, the Blue Dragon – Chapter #2: Wali was transfixed by Grampa’s description of Aqeeq. He was both eager and restless to begin his journey to Gnydilin but was informed by Grampa that a great story required the ideal setting; it had to welcome the reader, draw him into an isolated nook and cradle him…
Once I bought a small model of a charpai from a handicrafts shop, to be sent outside Pakistan as a symbol of Pakistani culture for a cultural exhibition. Interestingly, the children accompanying me, born and bred in urban Pakistan, couldn’t relate to the phenomenon of charpai. One of them could recognise it as something representative…
Hearing the rants of parents and elderly relatives on how the times have drastically changed, seems quite a mundane affair. However, when the girls, whose childhood had been of early 1990s, hue and cry of the ’generation gap’ in the similar manner then that gives me heebie-jeebies. With the ceaseless debate of generation gap, reading…
Such is the colorful symphony of life Where the brightest color can lie and leave you astray Some merge with one another While others fade away In the heart of success Things get fallen in the pit The ball eventually falls back As hard as it was hit In the end, I plead and cry…
Discourses impact our lives. They shape our minds and influence our perceptions towards the realities of it. In addition to this, discourses contribute to the construction of our social realities too. Though the influence of media and books is important in the studies of discourses, the impact of cinema, in this regard, demands intellectual curiosity. Cinema’s…
Jammu and Kashmir’s bollywood connection is seen as a romantic history of pre insurgency on the Line of Control. There was a time when this state was the hot destination for the bollywood movies and now is the time when the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visits Mumbai to urge bollywood film producers and actors to shoot film…
