Pakistan’s Cricket Anthems: A Love Song by Another Name (PART 1)
Mar 19, 2025
Is there an almost mathematical formula to creating an effective cricket anthem, or is cracking the code to the popularity of this genre of song far more ambiguous?
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Notes on a Spectacle
Mar 10, 2025
Cricket in Pakistan may be a deeply political project, but our attachment to the sport - the heady highs and the dismal lows - make it so much more
Climate Migration In Coastal Sindh: A Battle For Survival
Mar 06, 2025
Pakistan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world, and agricultural and fishing communities of Sindh are paying the price with their lives uprooted and livelihoods decimated
LLF 2025: CELEBRATING CULTURE AND SPRING IN LAHORE
Feb 24, 2025
This year’s edition of the Lahore Literary Festival may not have lived up to the hype and star power of LLFs past, but it still remains a crucial and thriving space for cultural dialogue
Love In The Time Of Inflation: The Rise Of Imitation Jewelry In Pakistani Weddings
Feb 04, 2025
Pakistani brides increasingly opt for the luxe aesthetic without the price tag, but not without judgment
The Lost Generation
Feb 04, 2025
Pakistan is experiencing an exodus of our young. How does losing almost an entire generation of students with advanced degrees and ambitious dreams change us and them?
Boys to Men: the Problems of Pakistan’s Cricketing Culture
Feb 04, 2025
Pakistan cricket has 99 problems and toxic masculinity is 1 of them
The Impossibility of Being Single and Happy
Jan 21, 2025
The institution of marriage is an ideal in Pakistani society, the only acceptable and moral way to live, and when you choose to not enrol in the great program, a lot is assumed about you and a lot is said about you
Cinema and the City: Expanded Cinema in KB24
Jan 21, 2025
Across five venues, KB24 stirred Karachiites out of complacency with art that implicated its audience in the climate crisis we face today
The Inventive Amir Khusro And His Prescient Vernacular
Jan 21, 2025
This Islamic cultural figure from 13th century India took liberties with language that have turned into the conventions of our present
Sound of What Nation?
Jan 21, 2025
Calls for a boycott for this year’s season bring us back to the question of the very legitimacy of Coke Studio as a platform for Pakistani music
Resist. Witness. Repeat.
Jan 21, 2025
Dharti Dhar Dhar Dharke Gi: Artist As Witness, COMO Museum’s show curated by Salima Hashmi, is a searing homage to the artist’s testimony of a world rife with systemic violence
Chain of Light: Merely An Echo of Greatness?
Jan 21, 2025
A self-avowed devotee and admirer of Nusrat’s artistry remains largely unmoved by his posthumous album ‘Chain of Light’
In the Shadows of Heera Mandi: A Lost Tradition of Music
Jan 21, 2025
Heera Mandi might have been famous for the singing and dancing women, but in the midst of all this, it was also home to the tradition of classical music - a tradition that is now dying
Dispatch from Smogistan: An Interview with Dawar Butt
Jan 21, 2025
Climate activist and expert Dawar Butt speaks about the underlying causes and potential solutions to the cataclysmic air pollution in Pakistan
Pakistan’s Perfume Industry: Just a Whiff of What Could Be
Jan 21, 2025
The burgeoning perfume industry in Pakistan is largely a copycat factory, dominated by clones of internationally well-known designer fragrances. Will we see a turn towards innovation soon?
Haldi Doodh’s Evolution: From South Asian Kitchens to Global Sun Mylk
Jan 21, 2025
How did a humble spice, used in home kitchens and ayurvedic medicine mostly in South Asia for centuries, suddenly become a global super food?
Hearts in Flux
Jan 21, 2025
Watching the Israeli genocide in Gaza unfold as a parent has been heart wrenching, an uncanny double life, watching children torn apart on our phones while holding our sleeping babies
The Real Lives Of Salon Girls
Jan 20, 2025
Beauty workers in large Pakistani urban centres face a distinctive set of struggles with little recourse
Every Breath You Take
Jan 20, 2025
Decisive and effective policies to address the existential threat of rapidly deteriorating air quality is long overdue
How Does Art Resist?
Jan 20, 2025
A meditation on the duties and efficacy of artists in times of oppression and injustice
The Literary Wonder of Magical Realism: Reading vs Watching
Jan 20, 2025
Any attempt at adapting a literary giant’s work for the screen - especially one as stylistically and visually experimental as Marquez - is going to be a lofty mission
Customer Service: The Achilles' Heel of Pakistani Fashion
Jan 10, 2025
While the pandemic thrust many Pakistani fashion brands into e-commerce, a deeper look reveals that the foundations of this industry—logistics, customer support, and post-sale service—remain alarmingly shaky