O n the eve of Operation Sindoor, someone I once fervently tried to get the attention of shared a piece of fake news on Instagram. The post...
A two-day Orissi workshop, conducted by Sheema Kermani at The Colony, which had the writer “infused with motivation and inspired by her...
In a particularly uninspiring iteration of the LLF, severely deficient in both literature and festivity, one of the few things worth seeing was the...
Pakeezah, The Colony’s recent stage adaptation of the Bollywood classic, re-imagines the story for a younger audience, and adds a hip-hop style...
In a room full of people who love him, are inspired by his work, and whose lives he’s touched, tributes are paid to Punjabi poet Irfan Malik...
Amir Liaquat’s recent marriage to an 18 year old has made headlines across all media for all the wrong reasons
PEMRA is now encroaching on the culture, entering the public sphere, reaching out through the TV screens and attempting to influence the audience,...
During the last administration, there was quite an emphasis on infrastructure and public spaces
This year, as has become the norm in Pakistan, the looming spectre of terrorist attacks on Majalis and Ashura processions hung heavy in the air
As residents of a scorched city experienced some relief this week from the sun, owing to a spate of summer showers, the looming spectre of global...
Photo by Rahat DarFrom the terrace farms in the north to the languid fields of rural Punjab, farm workers are planting rice, in hopes that the yield...
The story of Britney reveals the hollowness of the American dream, which she so self-awarely identifies herself as the epitome of in Piece of Me....
While the destruction of a building that literally houses the top global news outlets that operate in the region is a stark and obvious example of...
As the vaccination drive continues, the infection-positivity rate for Covid-19 cases seems to be dropping and the lockdown restrictions ease, people...
For too long the voices of Palestinians living under settler occupation have been silenced, minimised and ignored on the public stage
A free and credible press is the only way to prevent social media disinformation from taking hold of the narrative
As the West reconciles its history of imperialism, slavery and racism, it must also recognise the plutocracies of large corporations that silence...
The power structure that oppresses and subjugates women and minorities also uses the anti-elite sentiment in the society against a movement that...
These senior citizens are forced to spend their golden years visiting pension offices endlessly and demonstrating about the difficulties they face...
Here is a look at local sports that put people in symbiosis with animals and the earth itself
