Archive for November, 2007
ln the lime of ire
Hello listeners, I am Anushave, and this is Radio E coming live to you from an undisclosed location. With me is Dimoo! Say hello to the listeners, dud!
Hello, listeners! Anushave, what does the E in Radio E stand for?
It stands for Emergency.
Oh, I thought the E stood for Ecstasy.
Ecstasy the drug?
Yes.
Whack! (Slaps Dimoo). Shut up, [...]
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For whose sake, pray?
Hailed as a breakthrough film by critics and hoards of people who are still lining up for it outside cinema halls, Khuda Kay Liye unfortunately is not a very timely event. It is in fact a vivid example of how liberals (even the more intelligent ones like Shoaib Mansoor), though quick to predict cultural the [...]
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The other blow back
Today’s generation is quite different from the one that danced in the streets of Karachi and Lahore at the demise of the Zia dictatorship
Last year 21-year-old Wasif Qureshi graduated from a local college in Karachi. He is a budding musician, has a band, a recently acquired day job in an advertising agency and dreams of [...]
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