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Toronto Fringe festival will once again be digital
For the second consecutive year, Toronto s biggest theatre event will be digital only By Glenn Sumi
Feb 24, 2021
You ll have to wait until the summer of 2022 to have that familiar Fringe experience.
For the second consecutive year, Toronto’s biggest stage event, the Fringe Festival, will be strictly digital because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After considering an outdoor festival for Summer 2021, the Toronto Fringe has decided to move forward with a digital festival to do our part to stop the spread of COVID-19,” reads a press release issued by the Toronto institution this morning.
January 24, 2021
A look at the exceptional life of physicist Riazuddin and his contribution to the development of physics and sciences in Pakistan
Riazuddin, Fayyazuddin, and Pervez Hoodbhoy relaxing at the tea huts, Quaid-i-Azam University, 2012.
These are the bare bones of a memoir, straightforwardly related and bereft of emotion, detail, or humour. If you are looking for literary finery, go elsewhere. This slim volume comes from a self-effacing man so soft spoken that just to hear him you sometimes had to lean forward. His full name was Riazuddin, a single word appropriate for a man of very few words; in fact, so few that apart from those who interacted with him scarcely has a Pakistani heard of him. When he passed away in 2013 in Islamabad at age 82, his death merited no more than a few newspaper lines and a small reference meeting at the Physics Department of Quaid-i-Azam University – of which he was the founder. Today nothing in that department, or in the nearby National C