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Hair Raising Decision
There are probably as many ways to wear hair on your face as on your head, and ever experimental men have, over time, explored every potential sequence in and out of the book–Moustaches, goatees, sideburns and even the thick untamed battlefields of hair left for nature to develop on their own–all employed eagerly to alter
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Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise – or is it?
First, let me clarify that I’m not an intellectual like most Pakistanis. I don’t wake up each morning with a new, no-fail solution to all our problems and I certainly don’t spend my daytime trying to cram my warped socio-political views into others’ heads like every Hamid, Talat and Kamran is found doing these days.
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Through the Magic Lens
One of the most appealing genres of photography is travel photography. When visiting a new place, all photographers strive to find a way to catch its uniqueness and bring it home with them. Here, three renowned Pakistani photographers share with us some amazing photographs from their escapades within Pakistan and around the globe, and explain
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Mr Know It All – 2/20
Dear Mr Know It All I’m sick of how my younger and prettier cousin copies the way I dress, down to the last accessory. She makes an effort to ‘match’ what I’m wearing at any and every occasion and I’m really tired of the inevitable comparisons that follow. I’ve told her off many times, but
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Mr Know It All – 1/20
Dear Mr Know It All, Every day when he comes back from work, my husband flicks on the TV and sits in front of it, eyes glazing over, for around an hour and a half. During this time, nothing I do or say can distract him. Its ruining our social life – because of his
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Hope Floats… away
A few days ago, for the second time in three years, I came face to face with Karachi’s violent alter ego. It was a pretty decent day with nice cloudy skies and more or less everything going my way, until I was told that we had to attend a wedding function in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. Now, I’m
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A different kind of love
When Ayesha Jalil woke up on the morning of her 40th birthday, she knew the time had come to give in and let her burgeoning maternal instincts take over. Teeming with warm feelings of love and what may come, she approached her own mother, eminent politician and commercial pilot Nasreen Jalil, with the decision to
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The “Cover” Girl
They say don’t judge a book by its cover… but more often than not, that’s exactly what we do. And Mumtaz Mustafa, a young Pakistani Rhode Island School of Design graduate and senior Art Director at HarperCollins Publishing in New York, is the woman in charge of ensuring that our inexorable judgment is not only
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Between Pictures & Words
An exhibition by Aasim Akhtar & Lali Ahmed A good retrospective presents an artist’s full career, challenges our preconceptions and encourages us to rethink his or her work and contributions. Last month’s exhibitions at the Koel Gallery in Karachi did just that, shedding new light on two very different photographers: Aasim Akhtar, a seasoned artist/photographer,
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Heaven in the North
Having spent a sizable chunk of my early childhood in Islamabad, I find myself drawn to nature in all its brilliant forms. There is something very special about that intoxicating smell of freshly cut grass; the unmistakably musty smell of forest; that first blossom of spring; those wild squirrels, birds and butterflies that are as