PUBLISHED July 20, 2025 KARACHI: Nordic thrillers are always my cup of tea — a new one on the streamer, and I’m instantly pulled in. This is probably because of the dark-ish stories, intense characters and flawless performances. The Nordic approach is to usually portray characters with depth, allowing older …
By Yusra Salim/Fouzia Nasir Ahmad | PUBLISHED July 20, 2025 KARACHI: “It was in the early 2000s that my daughter decided to move to the US where her father lived, to finish her high school,” recounts Fareeha Mirza*, a teacher in her 50s, her temples graying, her eyes soft brown. …
PUBLISHED July 13, 2025 KARACHI: After undergoing various socio-political and cultural controversies, and ups and downs, the new Indian film Sardar Ji-3, has been released globally except its parent country India. This leaves 1.5 billion film lovers deprived of enjoying this comedy feast starring Diljit Dosanjh, one of the most …
PUBLISHED July 13, 2025 KARACHI: When I was writing my Master’s dissertation, a friend pursuing his PhD introduced me to Nicola Wright’s work on the Digital Afterlife – a body of research that examines what happens when rituals, practices and cultural legacies are transplanted from the physical world into the …
PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: On paper, M* is living the life. She has a job she likes as a biomedical scientist and research fellow in women’s health. She has found her purpose: working to improve the lives of women with chronic health conditions through her FemTech start-up. So why …
PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: Glastonbury 2025 was always going to be charged, but few expected the seismic waves sent rippling through the global cultural sphere when Bob Vylan, mid-performance on the Left Field stage, roared out the chant “Death, death to the IDF” to a crowd erupting in cheers. …
PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: It is well known that when power is left unchecked, it can lead to disaster. Throughout history, numerous individuals and nations have struggled to emerge as the dominant power, but there is one that remains undefeated — the United States of America. John Hersey’s Hiroshima …
PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: Life, as the flamboyant and charming Georgia Miller puts it in her ultra-Texan drawl on Ginny & Georgia, is “always either a tightrope or a feather bed.” She’s sharing this famous quote, attributed to American writer Edith Wharton, with her fiancé, Paul Randolph, the mayor …
PUBLISHED June 29, 2025 KARACHI: It starts, often, with someone else’s phone. A woman in a small town outside Lahore wants to send money to her son in Karachi, but she doesn’t own a mobile wallet. Her brother does, so she asks him to do it. In Karachi, a fruit …
PUBLISHED June 22, 2025 KARACHI: Marjan Kamali is an award-winning, Iranian-American novelist and author, whose books have received both national and international acclaim and have been translated and published in more than 25 languages. Born in Turkey to Iranian parents, she spent her childhood in Turkey, Iran, Germany, and Kenya, …