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FEATUREDI get it. Militaries the world over make PR films. One cannot hold this fare up to higher standards of art. It is, literally, propaganda. One cannot expect an American film, produced by, or in coordin
FEATURED“The most important thing in the world is sincerity…...once you learn how to fake that, you have it made.” Waseem Bhai - or ‘seem paai, as he is known to the Lahori fans among
FEATUREDThe legitimacy of the electoral process after which the present government has come into power used to stoke a lot of emotions. The supporters of the ruling party - subdued of late - used to resen
FEATUREDOur story today starts with an American gentleman who goes by ‘Lenny.’ One evening, he was sitting at a bar on election night, 2016. “And I turned to the guy to my right, and I
NATIONALTweedledee, tweedledum ran The Dependent’s title of an image that compared the Indian and Pakistani media’s reaction to the International Court of Justice’s verdict on Kulbhushan Yad
FEATUREDNot too long ago - much lesser than a decade, actually - this very column was a tad critical of the MQM in an edition. That, too, only tangentially. After a couple of days, the paper got a stron
FEATUREDReaders might have seen a video clip of a talk show doing the rounds these days. In a program presumably about the economy, a gentleman is marvelling about how large a business Apple was. He was ref
FEATUREDThis writeup (titled 'Patriotic Racism') was written back in 2016, but the conversations that make their way to the airwaves and the press are identical, so it merits a replug. Back in 2016, it
Arts / EntertainmentThe Ride of the Valkyries is perhaps one of the most powerful pieces of music ever composed. So moving, that it is still used in films, notably war films, till this very day, where it probably has th
FEATUREDA series of acerbic exchanges on twitter this week, each of them more of a dumpster fire than the last. And all of them relating to the military, a topic that can only make its away online giv
FEATUREDThe Republican candidacy of Donald Trump - what to speak of his victory in the presidential election itself - was such an outlandish prospect, that it had been completely written off from the moment h
FEATUREDAnchor Farieha Idrees isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Still, one would have thought she would have known better than to tweet out some pure, unadulterated chutzpah. On the surface, o
