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An evening with Naseeruddin Shah
His very presence, even for a few minutes, can at times transform a sluggish, somewhat moribund narrative into an epic
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Sartorial elegance and the rage over nuts
In Pakistan, rich & powerful get away with almost anything and the worst cases inevitably occur during democratic rule
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Whatever happened to the daily horoscopes?
I don’t believe in horoscopes, but if certain superstitious readers get a kick out of them, I say bring them back
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The hunt for rare birds
Paul J Rappaport showed us that it was possible to go on a hunt without breaking any laws, without taking a life
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Remembering Sir Herbert Read’s little book
I genuinely believe that almost every man, irrespective of religion, goes through The Existentialist Experience
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The mother of all administrative gaffes
There is gross inefficiency in almost every department of government and the private sector, even the professions
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Freedom of the press… within limits
No amount of argument, rhetoric will convince me that its not deeply wrong to criticise, show disrespect to a prophet
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The attack on Charlie Hebdo
So far as the willful attacks on prophets are concerned, Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo are two notorious examples
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Living in a state of constant apprehension
The country has been in total disarray for a considerable time
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When the mobile phone is a nuisance
Just then I heard the strains of Pato, a Uruguayan tango which happens to be the ringtone on my mobile phone