Tag: Pablo Neruda

• The Ghost of Bob Dylan: On the two models of poetry

  I remember I first listened to Bob Dylan’s songs back in 2004 when I was studying in the small town of Colchester (the oldest town, and the first capital of Britain). I found myself relating to his songs in a way that I had never related to music before. The combination of his powerful lyrics…

  rrameez

  May 26, 2013

  Arts and Modeling

  antiwar, Art for art’s sake, Bob Dylan, civil rights, Faiz, Iqbal, Joan Baez, Obama, Pablo Neruda, Poetry, Protest poetry, revolution, Sahir, sixties, The Ghost of Bob Dylan

• Bombs, Sectarianism and Blasphemy: What’s Art Got To Do With It?

  March 4, 2013 Was coming back from an “Art Event” at the Karachi Arts council. I don’t go to such events but mom insisted (emotionally blackmailed to be precise), so I went. While coming back we started getting messages and calls on our cellphones that there had been two bomb blasts a few hundred meters…

  rrameez

  March 11, 2013

  Modeling

  art, art under duress, blasphemy, Bombings, Habib Jalib, Krishna Chandra, orwell, Pablo Neruda, resistance art, Salman Khan, Sectarianism, shakespeare, Tolstoy, war and peace, What is art