What Modi understands
Weekly article - What Modi understands - http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/31-Dec-2015/what-modi-understands December 31, 2015
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He should at least sing
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Weekly piece for Daily Times (that got lost in editing) http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/17-Sep-2015/he-should-at-least-sing Determined I was to write on the ever-going political engineering experiment by the powers-that-be to install the leadership of their will. But then I have not fully learnt avoiding useless arguments. And I indulged in one such with a few friends on Atif Aslam’s much talked about Tajdar-e-Haram for a popular fizzy drink sponsored music show that gets a lot of limelight on media, both regular and social. My disdain for the show is pretty well-known among my friends and when a friend was all praises for Atif for the song, I could not help but point out that Atif’s singing lacked the basic understanding of melody and does not adhere to basic rules of singing. That, of course, did upset a few there and we went into a long argument. In the singing sensation’s defense, the best my friends could muster was that yes he lacks basics of music but one shoul...