Huma Yusuf

Articles - Reviews - Freelance Journalism

Archive of 2003

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

 

The Cream of the indy Sindhy film scene see lights, camera, and action at the end of the tunnel.


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Art Attack

 

If history shows culture thrives in suffering, why isn’t there more good art in our country.


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Born To Beautify

 

The kings and queens of karachi know what they need when they want the royal treatment: a Mubashir makeover.


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Break On Through To The Other Side

 

Ten Forty-Eight create ripples in Karachi’s stagnant underground scene.


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Crafty Company

 

Piece by piece, Muna Siddiqui is building a one woman revival of the prosaic mosaic.


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Custodian of Culture

 

Are Pakistani letters collapsed facedown on the floor? Khurram Ali Shafique fears so.


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Die Hard

 

Our most sacred holiday is heading towards commercial oblivion. So What?


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Fair And Lovely Nation

 

When even your food feeds you racist messages, you know there’s a problem.


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Fashion’s Ten Commandments

 

Ten rules to guarantee the fashion event of the year, and the show that followed the formula a little too well.


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Fuzon Bear All

 

How the year’s musical success story got caught with their pants down at kinnaird college.


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Georgia On My Mind

 

Their men dance with each other, they have an irrational hatred of their neighbour - yes, the deep south is the soul mate of Pakistan.


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Love Ads Up

 

The war of westernise Pakistan is being directed by the couples that head the countries biggest ad agencies.


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Monstrous Patriotism

 

Hulking Hollywood blockbuster - but it took Pakistanis to get the green politics.


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My Big Fat Lollywood Blockbuster

 

Perfect Pakistani film: chop the ending, spice up with audience heckles, boil off western trends, and serve with as much biryani as possible.


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Sexual Healing

 

Dr. Mohsina Bilgrami is teaching Pakistan that shooting people isn’t the best contraceptive.


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State Of Bohemia

 

Sahira Kazmi remembers life, art and RK during PTV’s wonder years.


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The Birds And The Babes

 

Does the Jamil Naqsh retrospective indicate that Pakistani art is not dead in a ditch.


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The Djinn Tonic

 

Forced to marry the arranged ogre? Thrust into the fire of intolerance? perhaps a good fairytale will help.


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