The author is a culture critic based in Lahore
Friends and artistes from the world of literature, art and show business gathered at Lahore’s Alhamra Cultural Complex, to pay tribute to one...
Last week in a concert organised by Pakistan Classic Guild, Ustad Barkat Ali Khan was remembered at the Alhamra by Hussain Buksh Gullo, Asif Javed,...
Since the just-concluded National Folk Puppet Festival in Lahore was the eleventh in a row, the tradition of holding such festivals has become...
There has been an endless fascination with Turkey among the middle class Muslims of the subcontinent. The first nationwide movement for freedom, in...
The initiation of the spring season in Lahore was celebrated by kite-flying and display of saffron colours on basant, its middle phase by the...
What are the rules that evaluate a drama on stage that has no action but only the presence of two characters completely involved in reading letters...
In the three-day festival Sangeet Sammelan, held at Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts in Lahore, artistes from India performed along...
Eric Cyprian took to writing consistently only in the later part of his life and that too penning pieces in the various newspapers from...
Staying true to its tradition of staging plays on topical issues, Ajoka’s latest production at Lahore’s Alhamra was about...
There have been very few practitioners of music in our tradition who have also delved into history and a theoretical understanding of music. This is...
