By Kulsum Ebrahim

Across five venues, KB24 stirred Karachiites out of complacency with art that implicated its audience in the climate crisis we face today

By Ilma Qureshi

This Islamic cultural figure from 13th century India took liberties with language that have turned into the conventions of our present

By Ibrahim Tanweer

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

by Tehmina Khan

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

by Nauman Faizi

A self-avowed devotee and admirer of Nusrat’s artistry remains largely unmoved by his posthumous album ‘Chain of Light’

By Amel Ghani

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

By Mariam Tareen

Climate activist and expert Dawar Butt speaks about the underlying causes and potential solutions to the cataclysmic air pollution in Pakistan

By Aamir Ali Shah

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?

by Haneya Hassan Zuberi

How did a humble spice, used in home kitchens and ayurvedic medicine mostly in South Asia for centuries, suddenly become a global super food?

By Mariam Tareen

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

By Rutaba Tanvir

By Sara Javed Rathore

By Rahmat Tunio

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

By Sana Tahir

Pakistani brides increasingly opt for the luxe aesthetic without the price tag, but not without judgment

By Amna Chaudhry

Beauty workers in large Pakistani urban centres face a distinctive set of struggles with little recourse

By Aisha Khan

Decisive and effective policies to address the existential threat of rapidly deteriorating air quality is long overdue

By Dur e Aziz Amna

A meditation on the duties and efficacy of artists in times of oppression and injustice