The writer is an assistant editor at The News on Sunday.
In his new book, Anjum Altaf revisits the works of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
The News on Sunday interviews Sarah Belal for her thoughts on death penalty for child abuse
Soap operas can be purposeful interventions into the private sphere, encouraging debate and reflection
A conversation is needed on access to mental health services but considering the scarcity of data on mental illnesses in Pakistan, it is a difficult...
Like all healthy food, boiled eggs are also guilty of being terribly boring
More than 250 lawyers stormed the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore on December 11, 2019
For a moment, a woman’s voice was louder than everyone else’s at the Faiz Festival in Lahore
The three-day-long Faiz Festival ended on a high note
How women struggle to get on with their lives following their divorces
Snippets from a conversation with Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam at the Asma Jahangir Conference in Lahore
Algorithmic transparency is an issue all over the world with people having little or no understanding of how it works
An interview of human rights specialist Daanika Kamal, founder of The Colour Blue, a social enterprise which empowers those facing mental health...
Other than a poetic dimension, there is little of interest to failing at preparing a meal. After all, spices can’t conspire against you....
The recurring trend of nostalgia marketing among Pakistani fashion brands for women raises questions on the processes by which style and fashion are...
Support groups for women who have faced violence are few and far between
With space shrinking for the dead, the price of graves is rising
With one-fourth of the country’s population living below the poverty line, inflationary pressures are pushing the vulnerable up against the wall
Does the perception that a lead actor is playing herself, affect how an initiated audience views a film like Baaji?
There had never been an uproar over the criteria for civil awards in Pakistan -- until this year’s list of recipients was announced
Should we relegate these obscure little miseries and ‘negative emotions’ only to the field of psychology and anthropology?
