Best films of the year
The top ten films of 2018: 10) A Heathers for Generation Z, the protagonists of Sam Levinson’s biting, bloody, and over-the-top satire Assassination Nation are teenage girls blamed for society’s…
First Indian film museum to open in home of Bollywood
Seven years in the making and costing nearly $20 million, the first Indian film museum is set to open in the home of Bollywood, more than 100 years after the…
Adieu, sweet prince
ZIA Mohyeddin was horizontal the first time I encountered him, reclining on a couch in his dressing room at the Central TV studios in Birmingham. I was there — by…
Revisiting Javed Akhtar
AT the Faiz Festival in Lahore Javed Akhtar was asked to tell Indians that not all Pakistanis were terrorists. In response, he said two things. First, that the two countries…
Win it like Megan Rapinoe
MODERN sports are difficult to imagine without their Westphalian baggage, the self-limiting national affinities of players and fans. In more mature societies, respect to the national flag is getting conditioned…
The glorious Indian cow
Next week, on June 18, Bombay – now known by its new name Mumbai – is hosting a one-day conference on Indian cows titled, ‘The Glorious Indian Cow’. Under the…
Is foreign policy possible?
The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan. The comprehensively corrupt and heartless governance of the recent…
France hits reverse on sinking tyres for artificial reefs
Tourists and film stars hitting the beach at the French Riviera resort of Cannes may be blissfully unaware but lurking beneath the sparkling waves are tens of thousands of now…
Stampeded by the experts
“No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe theologians,…
Where will he stop?
At a press conference last Wednesday following Nawaz Sharif’s return from Delhi, Sartaj Aziz claimed that although it was “essentially a ceremonial occasion”, the actual result and outcome of the…
