Books:

• Painting in Pakistan
• Shakir Ali (coming soon)

Articles printed in the Daily Times every Wednesday:

1. THE WAY IT WAS: How should I know?
2. THE WAY IT WAS: A helmet is cheaper than your head
3. THE WAY IT WAS: Mera bhi toe hai
4. THE WAY IT WAS: The larger picture
5. THE WAY IT WAS: The naval invasion
6. THE WAY IT WAS: Women for the taking?
7. THE WAY IT WAS: Akhri Angrez
8. THE WAY IT WAS: Cows and buckets
9. THE WAY IT WAS: Roll up your sleeves
10. THE WAY IT WAS: Wives yes, but no kites
11. THE WAY IT WAS: Bugti lets our heaters burn
12. THE WAY IT WAS: Of sun, birds and a friendly spy
13. THE WAY IT WAS: Live now or cash later?
14. THE WAY IT WAS: The small matter of patriotism
15. THE WAY IT WAS: ZAB spoilt the servants
16. THE WAY IT WAS: A friend in need is a friend indeed
17. THE WAY IT WAS: Art and nationalism
18. THE WAY IT WAS: Book launch and a rare perspective
19. THE WAY IT WAS: The almonds will bloom
20. THE WAY IT WAS: Try spitting out the anger
21. THE WAY IT WAS: Diwali mubarak
22. THE WAY IT WAS: Let there be no losers
23. THE WAY IT WAS: Will the advice be taken?
24. THE WAY IT WAS: Friends in the neighbourhood
25. THE WAY IT WAS: Infidels and brother Muslims
26. THE WAY IT WAS: Confused about culture and purity
27. THE WAY IT WAS: The third opinion
28. THE WAY IT WAS: Two chairs for democracy!
29. THE WAY IT WAS: Modernism revisited
30. THE WAY IT WAS: Of pehlwans and miniatures
31. THE WAY IT WAS: Where have they all gone?
32. THE WAY IT WAS: Better safe than sorry?
33. THE WAY IT WAS : The way it should not be
34. THE WAY IT WAS: Sweep it under the prayer mat
35. THE WAY IT WAS: Finding a corresponding link with nature
36. THE WAY IT WAS: To keep or not to keep promises
37. THE WAY IT WAS: The absurd and absurdity
38. THE WAY IT WAS: A crow on the parapet
39. THE WAY IT WAS: Betrayal for the larger good
40. THE WAY IT WAS : Where things belong
41. THE WAY IT WAS: Of truth and falsehood
42. THE WAY IT WAS: Wretched common things
43. THE WAY IT WAS : ‘Thoughts too deep for tears’
44. THE WAY IT WAS: Take it or leave it
45. THE WAY IT WAS: A substitute for the real thing
46. THE WAY IT WAS: Gallan baatan
47. THE WAY IT WAS: Fix the rooster, not the hen!
48. THE WAY IT WAS: Dial ‘M’ for merger
49. THE WAY IT WAS: In the company of fair women
50. THE WAY IT WAS: The melting ice cube
51. THE WAY IT WAS: Forging a myth
52. THE WAY IT WAS: A bowl of pumpkin soup
53. THE WAY IT WAS: Half-empty glass of water
54. THE WAY IT WAS: Breaking a rock with eggs
55. THE WAY IT WAS: An accident
56. THE WAY IT WAS: Amazing my foot!
57. THE WAY IT WAS: Khwaja’s melting pot
58. THE WAY IT WAS: Sexing up paintings
59. THE WAY IT WAS: Jack and the Queen of Hearts
60. THE WAY IT WAS: Even freedom fries will do
61. THE WAY IT WAS: Poverty alleviation or elimination
62. THE WAY IT WAS: Sobering thoughts for a new year
63. THE WAY IT WAS: Delete B’s and P’s to correct P’s and Q’s!
64. THE WAY IT WAS: For butter or for worse!
65. THE WAY IT WAS: Not a shoe to wear
66. THE WAY IT WAS: Iris and the river of fire
67. THE WAY IT WAS: Impossible to please anyone
68. THE WAY IT WAS: Chughtai in the woods
69. THE WAY IT WAS: Why oh why?
70. THE WAY IT WAS: Goofers, golfers and gardens
71. THE WAY IT WAS: Apprehend the father and thrash him
72. THE WAY IT WAS: Even a bald eagle would do
73. THE WAY IT WAS: Turkish delights before dinner
74. THE WAY IT WAS: A lakh in life — lakh and a quarter after retirement
75. THE WAY IT WAS: Casting a shadow on pink memories
76. THE WAY IT WAS: Let a thousand flowers bloom
77. THE WAY IT WAS: Of past and present
78. THE WAY IT WAS: Benefit of state awards
79. THE WAY IT WAS: Tricks the eyes play
80. THE WAY IT WAS: Seeking strength from innocence
81. THE WAY IT WAS: Tasting the collective good
82. THE WAY IT WAS: Grumpy heron and ingenious hen
83. THE WAY IT WAS: Writers and sweating painters
84. THE WAY IT WAS: Of looswallahs and sheedis
85. THE WAY IT WAS: How to win freedom
86. THE WAY IT WAS: Artist and his freedom
87. THE WAY IT WAS: Gelded art and gilded capitalism
88. THE WAY IT WAS: Aay watan pyaray watan
89. THE WAY IT WAS: Remembering Azad Kausri
90. THE WAY IT WAS: From Rumi to Mao
91. THE WAY IT WAS: Other side of nationalism
92. THE WAY IT WAS: On rewriting literature and laying eggs
93. THE WAY IT WAS: With as much wind as possible
94. THE WAY IT WAS: Some inimitable characters
95. THE WAY IT WAS: Rendering verse
96. THE WAY IT WAS: Memories of another time
97. THE WAY IT WAS: Afghanistan — afloat in time
98. THE WAY IT WAS: The Afghanistan I saw
99. THE WAY IT WAS: Vision of a new ummah
100. THE WAY IT WAS: Honourable Vs pompous Indians
101. THE WAY IT WAS: Not for faith but for sport
102. THE WAY IT WAS: ‘We can’t blink it more’
103. THE WAY IT WAS: To Thal with friends
104. THE WAY IT WAS: Mothers of the world unite
105. THE WAY IT WAS: For a fruity, sporting Pakistan
106. THE WAY IT WAS: Would you rather bang your head?
107. THE WAY IT WAS: A spirit which must not die
108. THE WAY IT WAS: Indeed what has changed?
109. THE WAY IT WAS: Stability and poise in things at rest
110. THE WAY IT WAS: The other side of the wall
111. THE WAY IT WAS: Fifty-fifty chance
112. THE WAY IT WAS: Men without honour and justice
113. THE WAY IT WAS: Standing this side of the window
114. THE WAY IT WAS: Far away and long ago
115. THE WAY IT WAS: The way it still is, I’m afraid
116. THE WAY IT WAS: ‘Does the fire hurt’
117. THE WAY IT WAS: A journey to Baghdad
118. THE WAY IT WAS: Our meeting with Lord Buddha
119. THE WAY IT WAS: Naukhar Kissan conference and our brush with law
120. THE WAY IT WAS: Adrift in India with Sohail Iftikhar
121. THE WAY IT WAS: Zeus, menthe and vinegar
122. THE WAY IT WAS: End of a graceful innings
123. THE WAY IT WAS: Art and national security
124. THE WAY IT WAS: Of pride and prejudice
125. THE WAY IT WAS: Birds of a feather...
126. THE WAY IT WAS: The joy of eating well-cooked trotters
127. THE WAY IT WAS: Of BOs and Pakistan’s national emblem
128. THE WAY IT WAS: Looking back at the sixties...
129. THE WAY IT WAS: Seduction at Mohenjodaro
130. THE WAY IT WAS: Of Laburnums and Kikars...
131. THE WAY IT WAS: Amrita Sher-Gill nude and makings of an artist