Indian filmmaker Kabir Khan at BIFF: Mainstream cinema is the most powerful media in India
Indian filmmaker Kabir Khan is currently in Busan, as his megahit film ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ screens at Busan International Film Festival. ‘The Asia N’ journalist Rahul Aijaz caught up with him about his film. Khan said his film was a big success because Salman Khan has not done anything like this before. The film revolved around […]
Obama invites arrested Muslim schoolboy to White House
A Muslim Texan, Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested in his school after a teacher mistook his homemade digital clock for a bomb which he made for his engineering class. The incident triggered accusations of Islamophobia in an online backlash. Interestingly, US President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited Ahmed to the White House after he was […]
Indian Muslim cleric issues ‘fatwa’ against A.R. Rahman for Muhammad film
A Muslim group, The Raza Academy in Mumbai, India said it has issued a “fatwa” against the Oscar-winning Indian music composer A.R. Rahman and Majid Majidi, the Iranian director of the film Muhammad: The Messenger of God. The institute also wrote to the Indian government, seeking a ban on the film. Rahman responded to […]
Charlie Hebdo mock European stance on migrants, publish Syrian toddler cartoons
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has published a cartoon about the death of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi on the cover of its latest issue. Since the photograph of three-year-old Aylan al-Kurdi, who fled with his family from the Syrian civil war but died on a Turkish beach was shared around the world, public support […]
A ‘Beat’ ghost walks across American landscape in search of himself
Kerouac ‘On the Road’ “Last night I walked clear down to Times Square and just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost – it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.” In the words of the Beat writer Jack Kerouac who gives life to words and reinvents a different form of sentence […]
Early autumn tour to outskirts of Seoul
Winter is coming. No, seriously, winter is coming. But for now, it is autumn in Korea (which is quite similar to winters in Karachi, Pakistan). Chilly winds, moody weather – sometimes sunny; at others, rainy, and at times, both simultaneously. And upon stepping away from Seoul for a day, even waving green fields, scarecrows and […]
61 infants died at Indian hospital in 2 weeks
Sixty-one infants have died at a children’s hospital in Cuttack, India in just two weeks, sparking protests and forcing the state government to launch an investigation. The deaths highlight the challenges faced in India’s underfunded public health system, where successive governments have failed to address the acute shortage of staff and clinics. Those problems are […]
20th Busan International Film Festival to exhibit a selection of French films
In its 20th year, Busan International Film Festival 2015 is set to begin in October and this year, the Special Program in Focus introduces a selection of French films, recommended by prominent French filmmakers, actors, critics and festival organizes. Following is the press release published by the BIFF: In this symbolic year of the 20th Busan […]
Homosexuality in ancient and modern Korea
June 2015 was the LGBT pride month and a number of events were organized by Korean LGBT community to celebrate their identity. Coming from a Pakistani background, I had not quite had a chance to explore the LGBT community in my country and even though Korean society itself is conservative about such issues, they […]
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