Given the onslaught of the wedding season that starts from November and goes on till January, Karachiites have much to look forward to because it gives them a reason to dress up and gorge on shaadi food. For others, weddings are important because it is a time to see and be seen, and of course, […]
It’s winter time again and woollen sweaters, coats, leather jackets and shawls are out. Shawls have been worn and used as a warm protective garment by kings and queens since times immemorial. Various styles and encouraged weavers to try new motifs, which helped establish a successful shawl industry. The word shawl is derived from Persian […]
The emerging trend of latest internet health news is a crass/cute example of the sort of update health information that has become the stuff of life, a regular source of terror and hope. Newspapers in particular can mesmerise with contradictory reports of particular foodstuffs just found to maybe increase or decrease bodily disaster.
Some people run, […]
Director Luchino Visconti’s first film Ossessione (1943) is considered an extremely important movie in the history of Italian and world cinema. An adaptation of James M. Cain’s noir-ish crime novel about a young wife of an inn-keeper who cheats on her older husband with a handsome drifter The Postman Always Rings Twice (which was also […]
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That venerable actor Charles Laughton directed only one movie, The Night Of The Hunter (1955) but that movie has become a classic and its stature grows every year. Laughton, with the help of his cinematographer Stanley Cortez, crafted a nightmarish modern fairy-tale that married the Brothers Grimm with German Expressionism to create unforgettable images which […]
