We are gearing up for VBB’s season opener. The flinging of my chappals across the electric wires on Dowling Street is the formal launch of the project. Don’t miss...
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17 Mar, 2010
Exploring truck art in Mauripur, Karachi
17 Mar, 2010
Exploring truck art in Mauripur, Karachi — all for the purpose of dressing up the little red Honda hatchback for the art car parade.
Read more01 Aug, 2009
Doc 101: Intro to Life and How to Live It
01 Aug, 2009
Doc 101: Intro to Life and How to Live It Dr. Mohammad Sarwar 1930-2009 1. Friendship: Find partners, friends. Create relationships. Share passion-politics not geography age religion. Once connected,...
Read more03 Jun, 2009
‘Time to create a left-oriented think tank’
03 Jun, 2009
[LINK] | Monday, June 01, 2009 By Shahid Husain Karachi Eminent jurist and former governor of Sindh, Justice (Retired) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim said on Sunday it was high time...
Read more27 May, 2009
Student politics pioneer Dr. M. Sarwar passes on
27 May, 2009
[LINK] Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 | 06:10 PM PST | KARACHI: One of Karachi’s oldest general practitioners, well known physician and former student leader Dr Mohammad Sarwar passed away...
Read more31 Mar, 2009
Aslam talking at the Station Museum…
31 Mar, 2009
Imran Aslam talking at the Station Museum, at a VBB event, Cultural Narratives. Documentation by Faroukh Virani.
Read more30 Jan, 2009
It's eerie to read Mohammad Hanif's…
30 Jan, 2009
It’s eerie to read Mohammad Hanif’s novel The Case of the Exploding Mangoes in 2009, nearly two decades after that giddy August 1988 evening in Karachi, when we all raced...
Read more16 Jan, 2009
Much of the footage that..
16 Jan, 2009
Much of the footage that I have been collecting for VBB’s Pakistan Live Broadcast” (with the help of my sister Beena) has been at moments when people come over...
Read more15 Jan, 2009
At the very last moment, as my trip…
15 Jan, 2009
At the very last moment, as my trip is winding down, the office of Constance Jones, Cultural Attaché at the US Embassy in Islamabad, sets up a visit for...
Read more13 Jan, 2009
These days — and for some time now…
13 Jan, 2009
These days — and for some time now — visiting newspaper offices in Karachi is different from how it used to be in the eighties. Now, to get into...
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