PUBLISHED November 23, 2025 For decades, winter in Pakistan has been marked by the glitter of weddings in grand banquet halls, outdoor marquees, and a blur of mehndis and baraats filling chilly December evenings. But the traditional “shaadi season,” once synonymous with the cold weather at year end, is changing …
PUBLISHED November 23, 2025 For poets and listeners, the voice is not just sound; it marks the shift from silence to meaning. Writing can preserve words, but the voice brings them alive in the moment. When poetry moves from the page into the air, it turns into something more than …
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 KARACHI: I came across a reel on Instagram recently that described Dr Victor Frankenstein as the “OG f***boi”. As funny as this Gen Z take on the titular protagonist of Mary Shelley’s classic of Gothic horror may sound, it may not be that far off — …
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 KARACHI: When Steven Knight set out to dramatise the making of Ireland’s most famous drink, few expected him to stir such potent contradictions. House of Guinness is not just a period drama about ale and ambition — it’s a story about class, faith, and the uneasy …
PUBLISHED November 02, 2025 LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR: While poverty is often seen as the primary predictor of malnourishment, it fails to account for the gender-specific disparities in access to nutrition that have steadily led to the development of chronic nutritional deficiencies among women and girls in the country. According to Dr Basmaa …
PUBLISHED November 02, 2025 KARACHI: My Life With the Walter Boys (MLWTWB) sat on my watch list quite for some time and I didn’t start seeing it until not so long ago, when a feisty tweeny mentioned to me that she had enjoyed the book of the same name by …
PUBLISHED October 26, 2025 KARACHI: The music of her life used to be the sound of gloves hitting the bag, sneakers gripping the mat, and laughter echoing through the gym after another exhausting round. Fitness wasn’t something Jovita did, it was who she was. “Before cancer, fitness was just part …
PUBLISHED October 26, 2025 KARACHI: Authenticity is the internet’s most sought-after illusion. When social media first promised a democratic space where anyone could speak, the appeal lay in its spontaneous and unorchestrated communication —its sense of being “real”. But as platforms professionalised, so did their users and the line between …
PUBLISHED October 19, 2025 A nation’s cinema is supposed to question, to disturb, to inspire but ours has forgotten how. What we call “Pakistani film” today is neither from an industry nor an art form; it is a patchwork of overused faces, the same jokes, predictable stories, and borrowed glamour. …
PUBLISHED September 14, 2025 KARACHI: If you are a fan of American humour, and canned laughter, don’t read this. But if shows such as The Office (UK version 2001), Only Fools and Horses, and Derry Girls, Friday Night Dinner, Alan Partridge, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Bless This House, Black …
