Five, four, three, two, one, clap!
Aman Malik Nov 4, 2004 interacts: 1I received an invitation to be a part of the audience on Question Time India. My first impulse was to politely turn it down, but
Media: Defining Roles
Zebunnisa Burki Oct 31, 2004 interacts: 14What has been the role of the media in gender portrayal, particularly, the emergence of the woman as an equal in society?
The new face of Reality
Zainab Mahmood Oct 26, 2004 interacts: 16In a furious race to outdo each other networks are airing reality TV shows with newer and crazier twists every few months.
A Booming Industry?
Nader Thiasi Sep 30, 2004 interacts: 3Growth in the new media industry remains one of the more dynamic sectors, even in developed countries. But with breakneck liberalisation of media policy, Pakistan
Contemporary Sit-Coms
ahmad hayat Sep 26, 2004 interacts: 3It is really difficult for people to tell whether I am talking about desi movies or sit-coms. The only apparent difference being that the sit-coms
The FM Boom
Beena Sarwar Sep 21, 2004 interacts: 6So what does this mean for Pakistan? After all, most FM stations just dish out ‘ear candy’ - easy listening, music hits, recipes, chit chat...
On-Air Exclusive!
Amrita Rajan Sep 2, 2004 interacts: 4Ted Turner’s Cable News Network, once disparagingly called the Chicken Noodle Network, now “the most trusted name in news” or CNN, changed everything...
Sister Act: Radio Free Speech in Bushland
Beena Sarwar Aug 28, 2004 interacts: 4I can’t help thinking that it is ironic that just as people rarely know of the dissent in Pakistan, so too there is little knowledge
Last Rites: An Evening at a Pak/Indian Show-biz Award Ceremony
Nadeem F Paracha Jul 24, 2004 interacts: 33The ceremony begins. But no. First eighty-two TV commercials of the seventy-seven corporate companies that have sponsored and co-sponsored and co-co-sponsored and co-co-co-sponsored the ceremony.
Experience Technology
Rashida Mufaddal Jun 27, 2004 interacts: 4Nothing would have prepared us for the experience we were about to have. It was as if we had slipped into a sound and deep
Our ’Zamir’
Beena Sarwar Jun 14, 2004 interacts: 8Zamir in Urdu means conscience, and that is what Zamir Niazi, that great chronicler of media freedoms and censorships, was to so many of us
Recent Accounts of US Perfidy in Iraq
Zeynab Ali May 16, 2004 interacts: 14
While President Bush may believe that he is carrying out ‘a mission that has been sanctioned by the divine’, as
A Sign of Things To Come?
Omar R Quraishi Apr 28, 2004 interacts: 143What is extraordinary is that this programme was shown on PTV. A few years ago something like this would have been unimaginable.
Western Media’s War on Pakistan
Moeed Pirzada Apr 22, 2004 interacts: 185The single most important contribution at this stage would be to develop a blueprint for a 'School of Modern Media Sciences', in other words an
Of Tiaras and World Peace
Khadija Hassan Jan 30, 2004 interacts: 7We hear more of world peace on the stage and see more blood shed in the real world but we take it all with a
My SAARC Diary
Farzana Versey Jan 6, 2004 interacts: 178The Indian journalists in Pakistan have been behaving as though they are in a mela with candy floss in their hands. Everything looks pink and


