Our essential reads for the week
In recent years Pakistan has seen a bleak period in the T20I cricket arena. However, does the series clean sweep against Bangladesh in May 2025 signal a shift in the tides? Can the team reignite spectators’ hope again?
A childhood favorite Punjabi film offers unexpected insights into contemporary Punjabi society
Every time a particularly brutal murder of a woman makes headlines, the public reacts with shock, even though the roots of femicide thrive in our own homes
A new series tracing the origins and evolution of the unique Pak-China partnership, examining how geopolitics, economic collaboration and mutual security concerns have shaped this “Iron Brotherhood”.
‘What is and was Lahore? How has it changed in its thirteen disruptions?’ These are among the many questions that flaneur-historian Dr Manan Ahmed Asif explores in his book ‘Disrupted City’.
Sana Yousaf’s brutal murder is not an isolated incident, but may be part of a larger pattern of rising masculine violence in reaction to the recent gains made by women towards greater equality in Pakistan
By Saba Imtiaz
By Umair Javed
By Maryam Jillani
Stories, Cultures, and Landscapes
Reflecting on the Zeitgeist
Even as the local economy has come to rely on tourism, Gilgit-Baltistan faces grave ecological, cultural and social challenges as a result of the recent surge
Jun 24, 2025
A childhood favorite Punjabi film offers unexpected insights into contemporary Punjabi society
Jul 07, 2025
Even as the local economy has come to rely on tourism, Gilgit-Baltistan faces grave ecological, cultural and social challenges as a result of the recent surge
Jun 24, 2025
A childhood favorite Punjabi film offers unexpected insights into contemporary Punjabi society
Jul 07, 2025
‘What is and was Lahore? How has it changed in its thirteen disruptions?’ These are among the many questions that flaneu...
Satire aims to provoke, but does Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel go far enough?
𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘱, the first ever book translated from Kannada shortlisted by the International Booker Prize, is a collection o...
The UK-based Pakistani author’s most recent novel A Woman on a Suitcase revisits marriage and the end of it
In our increasingly media-saturated landscape, in thrall of an attention economy that strategizes attracting eyeballs an...
Nobel Prize Winner Han Kang’s oeuvre may be be celebrated due to her status as a novelist “for the times”, but what sepa...
Sarwari lays it all bare in this clear-eyed memoir about the trials of her marriage, within which the lines between moth...
Abu Toha, who has emerged as a significant voice during the genocide of his people, has written a harrowing testament to...
SPORTS
In recent years Pakistan has seen a bleak period in the T20I cricket arena. However, does the series clean sweep against...
SPORTS
Somewhere between buffet-style star-studded extravaganzas to budget productions and to the relentless self-promotion of...
In contemporary America, the system of financing election campaigns has become a vast, institutionalised behemoth that ensures elected officials are more accountable to their wealthiest donors than to their constituents. Therein lies the not-so-secret to bipartisan, unconditional support for Israel
From the encampments of Columbia University to the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza, an unprecedented sense of solidarity unites the world even as Israel strengthens its own dark alliances
A personal meditation on the distinction between art and luxury, beauty and gloss
