PUBLISHED August 10, 2025 When 28-year-old Sana began to lose clumps of hair and to wake up with stiff, painful joints in her right hand, she told herself it was nothing but stress. Six months later, a rash across her cheeks flared and she developed breathlessness. Multiple doctors offered inhalers, …
PUBLISHED August 10, 2025 As And Just Like That, the reboot of the 90s and early noughties show Sex and the City (SATC), will come to a close after its third season, according to an HBO announcement. One can’t help but reminisce about how SATC hit us 20 years ago …
KARACHI: When a video of veteran humanitarian Ramzan Chhipa went viral this July, the internet didn’t know whether to laugh, cringe, or applaud. In the now-famous clip, Chhipa surprises a young boy with a birthday cake at a shop. With a film director’s precision and an unmistakable performative flair, he …
KARACHI: When a video of veteran humanitarian Ramzan Chhipa went viral this July, the internet didn’t know whether to laugh, cringe, or applaud. In the now-famous clip, Chhipa surprises a young boy with a birthday cake at a shop. With a film director’s precision and an unmistakable performative flair, he …
SLOUGH, ENGLAND: As most parents of small children can attest, one of the world’s greatest places to take a nap is a cinema. This holds particularly true if that cinema’s head honchoes have had the foresight to install reclining leather seats and an industrial-strength air conditioning unit blasting out shades …
KARACHI: Six months. That’s how long it took for the death of Pakistani actor Humaira Asghar to make it to the headlines. Not because no one knew but because no one cared. Her quiet departure from this world, unnoticed and unacknowledged, reflects not just individual tragedy but the profound fractures …
KARACHI: A few days ago, veteran actor Naumaan Ijaz decided to weigh in on a viral video of YouTuber Maaz Safdar gifting his wife a truck-sized bouquet. Most people online found the gesture amusing or sweet. Ijaz, however, turned it into a lecture, as he commented, “Dear sisters, please don’t …
KARACHI: For too long, the literary gaze on South Asia’s summers, especially through diaspora pens writing for white audiences, has leaned on sepia tropes: mangoes and melas, the year-long appeal of chai, ceiling fans whirring above midday siestas, and monsoon promises murmured by young lovers over sticks of kulfi. That …
Sana Nawaz found herself in quite the predicament recently by declaring in a video that "artists have no boundaries" when defending her politically silent peers. Given the unrelenting conflict that has marred whatever amity remained between Pakistan and India, it is easy for such a statement to raise a storm, …
By all accounts, the recent Piers Morgan episode on India-Pakistan relations should not have been watched, let alone dissected. And yet, here we are, post-morteming a panel discussion featuring former Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Indian journalist Barkha Dutt, and — why not — two podcasters: Pakistan's Shehzad Ghias Shaikh and …
