The author is the president and CEO of National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA)
On Lord Reith: The architect of BBC
There are those who think it’s important to understand the text and then are those who believe it is important to reconstruct the lived experience...
It is entirely because of the pursuit of classicism that certain arts have been pursued throughout the centuries
Part 1 One of the reasons I refuse to be interviewed by newspapers, or on television, is that they always ask inane questions like: what is your...
So much of the process of living out a day is nothing but tedium. You cannot make your routine existence artistic any more than you can reduce the...
It was during a train ride between Bombay and Poone, way back in 1959, that I heard that stylish actor -- and brilliant conversationalist -- the...
Our meetings of leisurely conversations were less frequent now. Previously we had chatted about life and literature and actors and the London...
(Preamble: David Lean’s strikingly exotic wife, Leela, told me that David had decided to cast me in his forthcoming film Lawrence of Arabia....
I plunged into the task and, in the next eight months and produced Euripides, Aeschylus, Moliere, Strindberg, and Shakespeare. Except for Medea and...
Radio Pakistan was born in Lahore, in 1947, in the neo-colonial, palatial house belonging to Sir Fazl-e-Hussain, a Punjabi politician and a loyal...
Speech is perhaps one of the most potent facets of human activity. Whether you are communicating your thoughts on Spinoza to a class of philosophy...
An endless stream of commercials, soaps, serials and political wrangling has been the staple of our television for years. We deserve it I suppose....
Faiz Sahib’s immense popularity often stands in the way of a critical appraisal of his works. His contribution to our literature and culture...
"I was walking along a path overgrown with grass, when suddenly I heard from someone behind, ‘See if you know me?’ I turned round and...
In the years between the two World Wars, Britain produced a score of distinguished novelists. On my bookshelves lie Anthony Burgess, Iris Murdoch,...
I never saw my grandfather -- he died well before I was born -- so I missed experiencing that slightly comical but deeply affectionate...
Nostalgia works wonders; it leads one’s memory into fantastic channels. Nostalgia creates its own euphoria. Thus it is that, nostalgically, in...
Whenever there is talk of Shakespeare, most people that I know raise their chins and, with hand resting on their heart, declaim, "To be or not to...
Anees’s purpose was to stir the hearts and emotions of a committed Shia audience. It is said that he had a powerful voice, and from all...
