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  • COVER STORY
    • Men of the Match!
    • Changing Global Order
    • Between Humiliation and Escalation
    • Fools Fooling Fools
    • Prepare for the Worst
  • REGION
    • Margalla Machismo!
    • High-Stakes Mediation
    • America or Iran?
    • Crisis Within Crisis
    • Austerity Myth
    • Foreign Investment Façade
    • Flowing Assumptions
    • Counting India
    • The Invisible 14%
    • ‘Bangladesh First’
    • Too Minor to Matter
    • From Rap to Reform
    • The Ally That Wasn’t
  • International
    • End of Pax Americana?
  • FEATURE
    • Bursting the AI Bubble
    • Degrees Without Destiny
    • Shrinking Spaces
    • Shaam with Saheli
  • REVIEWS
    • Books
      • Pakistan Cricket Chronicles 1948–2024
      • Memoirs Of Iftikhar Soomro
    • Web Series
      • Bridgerton Season
    • Film
      • Aag Lagay Basti Mein
  • MORE
    • Editor’s Desk
    • Readers’ Thoughts
    • Grapevine
    • Who Said That!
    • News Buzz
      • News Buzz May 2026
    • Opinion
      • Seize the Moment, Pakistan!
    • Tribute
      • Asha Bhosle A Life Well Sung
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Reviews

Reviews TV series 

Badshah Begum

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The realities of the influential families of Sindh are depicted in the play Badshah Begum. Saman Ansari plays the role of the manipulative Hakim Bi. S

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Reviews WEB series 

The Batman

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Fear is toll, when it lights up the sky, It’s not just a call, It’s a warning.

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Film Reviews 

State of Mind

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

State of Mind or Three Christs is a dramatic film based on real life events from the 1960s field of psychology and psychiatry.

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Book Reviews 

The Pink Lady

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. This quote by Cassandra Clare, an American writer best describes the intention behind the book ..

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Book Reviews 

Passion of Dhol

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Six hundred words worth of a review is simply not enough to do justice to this erudite and remarkably well-researched work.

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Book Reviews 

Notes on an Execution

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Notes on an Execution’ by Danya Kukafka burrowed deep under my skin from the opening pages.

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Film Reviews 

Scream 2022

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Scream 2022’ is an American horror and thriller. With an imdb rating of 7.3/10, the film evokes plenty of excitement and keeps suspense in the audience till the last minute.

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Film Reviews 

Prince Charming

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 admin 1 Comment

Prince Charming, featuring Mahira Khan and Zahid Ahmed, is a recently-released short film directed by Shehryar Munawar.

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DRAMA Reviews 

Jo Bichar Gaye

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The drama serial ‘Jo Bichar Gaye’ currently showing on Geo TV channel is adapted from a biographical novel and popularised as a historical series based on events in Dhaka, from late 1970 to December 1971.

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Book Reviews 

Empyrean Realms

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Taimur Awan’s poetic prowess and a serene sense of rhyme are reflected in his poems. He is the author of two books – a collection of poems – Spiritual Balms and Empyrean Realms.

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Book Reviews 

Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth Century North India

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Akbar Zaidi follows up his edited volume New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Economy with this erudite and engaging scholarly monograph on the role played by print and orality in helping to shape Muslim subcontinental identity in nineteenth century India, especially during the Raj.

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Book Reviews 

A Taste of Pakistan in Fusion

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Primarily a mixing of different food cultures and cuisines together, fusion cooking can be referred to as a form of cooking which combines…

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Book Reviews 

The Islamic Law of Inheritance

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

At a quarter of the length of Hamid Khan’s tome on constitutional law, this particular book on Islamic inheritance might be less lengthy…

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Book Reviews 

The Way You Live

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The Way You Live by Mehrin Ruaid brings out life’s important questions about choosing a life partner.

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DRAMA Reviews 

Sang-E-Mah

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The new drama serial ‘Sang-e-Mah’, which is currently on air on Hum TV, is the new sensation for all the TV buffs…

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Film Reviews 

Hotel Transylvania

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is an American computer-animated film released

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Reviews WEB series 

Emily in Paris

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Americans have often been accused of viewing the world through a myopic, if not entirely distorted, lens.

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Book Reviews 

Tales from Karachi

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

‘Tales from Karachi’ is a collection of flash fiction and poetry about Karachi, once referred to as ‘The City of Lights.’

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Book Reviews 

Gut-wrenching Reminder

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Memoirs that resemble hagiographical texts are grossly unreliable as they fail to present a nuanced portrait of reality. Syed Nizam Shah’s Paradise Lost…

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Book Reviews 

Change in South Asian Cities

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Despite the fact that many of us live in cities, and even if we do not their growth, structures and changes impact us, many of us remain utterly unaware of how complex these spaces are.

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Film Reviews 

Spencer

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The life of Lady Diana, the Princess of Wales, has always been in the public eye, be it her wedding with Prince Charles or her relationship with her in-laws. The most recent is the Season 4 of the web series ‘The Crown’.

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Reviews WEB series 

Hellbound

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

How would you feel if you knew the exact time of your death? We all know that’s not possible. But for Netflix’s series ‘Hellbound’

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Reviews WEB series 

Secrets of the Keyhouse

December 1, 2021December 2, 2021 admin 0 Comments

Developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill and Aron Eli Coleite, ‘Locke & Key’ is a live-action adaptation of a comic series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez that revolves around the Locke family.

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