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Beauty and the Verb
Pull, tuck, squeeze, pluck, pump, burn, crunch, cut, cleanse, tone, blow, bleach, conceal, and teeze yourself into the ideal.
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Magic
“If magic is to be defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognise that no society will ever be free from it.” These are the closing words of Keith Thomas’s remarkable book Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971). As someone who is…
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What are we doing here?
In June 1947, Mountbatten, the British Viceroy of India, likened Pakistan to a tent. * “What are we doing? Administratively, it is the difference between putting up a permanent building, and a Nissen hut or a tent. As far as Pakistan is concerned we are putting up a tent. We can do no more.” His…
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Chaos
Disorder in Court I’ve been watching The Three Stooges lately. I love their fresh, irreverent and truthful comedy. I particularly enjoyed this little short called Disorder in Court. It manages to poke fun at just about everyone involved in the legal process and the belief that order can somehow solve all our problems. Watch Disorder in Court.
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Welcome to Nasheed’s blog
Hello! Thanks for visiting my blog, which is primarily a space for me to share aspects of my work as a writer and director. I will also use this space to collate ideas, observations and insights about movies and film making. Of course, these things don’t exist in a vacuum so I will inevitably end…
Nasheed Qamar Faruqi 