Archive for September, 2008
Shahzad Roy’s latest video and song, Laga Reh, has created a prominent little ripple in the local pop scene. An irreverent take on the various socio-political forces of agitation in the country, the song has also managed to disturb the sterile homogeneity of today’s music scene. In spite of the fact that Roy began his [...]
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Boot Point
Just as there is a serious lack of objectivity, responsibility or sometimes simple decency in most political TV talk shows, religious shows too are riddled with a warped display of what could best be described as narcissist anarchy.
It was inevitable. Former minister and host of a religious TV show, Dr Aamir Liaquat, who is also [...]
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Look, Mom, I’m A Bogey!
A few days ago my day was made when I stumbled across a DVD of a 2007 documentary called The Power of Nightmares. Made by the BBC, the narrator and director of the documentary, Adam Curtis, lays down a rather convincing thesis that suggests that the current ‘war on terror’ and ‘Islamic terrorism’ are two [...]
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Purveys Of Buffoonery
Right from the beginning, the overall political character of the Pakistani bourgeois and the petty-bourgeois emerged as being conservative.
On September 6 when these pages are in front of you, Asif Ali Zardari will be well on his way to becoming the next President of Pakistan. Meanwhile, it has been a most interesting exercise following the [...]
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Loaded!
NFP reviews Ali Azmat’s Klashinfolk
Junoon, after delivering its last great hurrah in the shape of the brilliant Parvaaz (1999), operated no more than a sad caricature of its past glories. However, this hasn’t stopped history from treating it as being perhaps Pakistan’s most vital rock band ever.
Interestingly, it was former Junoon vocalist Ali Azmat’s bitter [...]
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