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Arts & Culture, Special FeaturesDecember 31, 2013

Editors’ Books of the Year

By Editors of TMS, Maryam Piracha

This year, The Missing Slate’s editors pick out one book that contextualized 2013 for them. Read on to find out what their picks are and whether you agree.

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MagazineOctober 15, 2013

The Folded Earth

By Anuradha Roy

Every time prices rose, she said, “Does Gormint care if we live or die?” Government was a person who lived far away and grew fat while her cheeks hollowed with too much work and too little food.

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Magazine, Roving Eye, SpotlightOctober 15, 2013

Spotlight Artist: Numair Abbasi

By Numair Abbasi

The Missing Slate’s Creative Director sat with Indus Valley student and emerging artist Numair Abbasi to talk about the rapidly political world of Pakistani art, art lobbies, and the recurrent themes in his work.

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In the IssueOctober 15, 2013

Fall 2013 — The “Politics” Issue

By Maryam Piracha, The Missing Slate Editors

What’s featured in the “Politics” issue including web (and digital) exclusives.

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Magazine, Roving Eye, SpotlightOctober 15, 2013

Spotlight Potter: Sheherzade Alam

By Sheherzade Alam

Sheherezade Alam is a potter and lecturer of Ceramics and History of Art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and has her…

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A Word from the EditorOctober 14, 2013

A Word from the Editor-in-Chief

By Maryam Piracha

On politics, art, and why The Missing Slate breaks its promise to never “do” politics…

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MagazineOctober 14, 2013

Art’s Place in the Digital Age

By Aaron Grierson

Senior Articles Editor Aaron Grierson addresses the increasingly shifting sands of what constitutes art in the digital age.

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Featured Articles, MagazineOctober 14, 2013

USS: The Uncertain State of Superheroism

By Mahnoor Yawar

“While moral ambiguity is not an option for superheroes, how far can a writer take political and social messages of their time without resorting to the pulpit?” asks Deputy Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar.

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MagazineOctober 14, 2013

Another Country

By Anjali Joseph

She briefly feared the outer door wouldn’t let her leave, but she found the button to press and slipped into the street. It was raining, and cold. She walked slowly home, reassured by the quotidian misery of the Monoprix…

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Featured Articles, MagazineOctober 14, 2013

The Rise of Pakistan’s First Comic Book Giants

By Ghausia Rashid Salam

From a Facebook page to bringing out Pakistan’s first true comic book, Ghausia Rashid Salam traces the progress of the Kachee Goliyan Comics’ boys.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.