By Sonya Rehman With internet usage on the rise, Pakistanis are turning to the blogosphere and citizen journalism to share their opinions. Hosh Media epitomizes the growing popularity of locally-based, online portals for citizen journalism in Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the number of broadband internet subscribers rose from 26,611 in 2005 to [...]

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By Sonya Rehman Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was in her office, in her hometown of Karachi, Pakistan, when she found out that “Saving Face,” which she co-directed with Daniel Junge, had been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary short. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy – Photo: Amean J Read the entire article here! The Wall Street Journal, Scene [...]

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By Sonya Rehman Morning talk show host Maya Khan and her team behind ‘Subah Saweray Maya Kay Sath’ on SAMAA TV, stand for all that is bizarre, absurd and beyond mediocre regarding local, Pakistani morning shows. Maya Khan Recently, this week, a Youtube video of one of the show’s episodes went viral. Live, the show [...]

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By Sonya Rehman We’re sitting on a sunny patch of grass at Peeru’s Café – the Rafi Peer Theater Workshop’s food joint located far out on Raiwind Road, in Lahore. The compound also hosts the Workshop’s office space as well as their colourful Museum of Puppetry. Even if you were born and brought up in [...]

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By Sonya Rehman I’m stoked. Photographed the lovely, pixie-faced Sarah Cheema for the Wall Street Journal’s art/culture website – Scene Asia. Didn’t think it’d get published, but it did. ‘SceneStyle’ is a section on their website that features people in cool garb on streets around the world. So, so proud that we could represent Lahore, [...]

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What did 2011 teach you? Strange thing, I only ‘felt’ change towards the tail-end of this year. Realized that playing it safe all the time sucks. Planning sucks too. Realized that guilt is healthy, even some regrets. Why? Because if you choose, you can make sure you don’t repeat old patterns. Realized that change comes [...]

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By Sonya Rehman At the behest of some friends, I finally got around to enrolling myself in a 6-day ‘Art of Living’ workshop in Lahore at the Al Razi Healthcare centre on MM Alam Road at the tail-end of November this year. I’d heard about Shahnaz Minallah – one of the founders of the Pakistani [...]

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