It is with a slightly different, wider, lens that citizens should look at the year past, keeping the self-flagellation mode aside. The flip side is...
The twin challenge in the human rights context is the use of bad laws to curb people’s rights and the lengthening list of such laws
Life does not stop teaching you lessons. In unexpected, sometimes unwanted, ways. That’s when the adage starts looking less clichéd. For me, it...
Remembering Fareeha Rafique who made her mark as a gifted journalist and the best of friends to so many
Hopes and aspirations for the city in 2024
It’s about a city that is dying a slow death. Sadly, no one seems to care
Let’s make Lahore a cycle city
It is encouraging to see the Ministry of Human Rights among the best performing ministries. Its responsibilities are enormous; its path difficult
The case would borderon farce if it weren’t so tragic
Few will ever have the nuanced objectivity of Rahimulaah Yususfzai’s writing
Generally, the not-writing for writers is a hiatus that is required for good writing
Worn words of a tested language cannot capture the spirit of IA Rehman. Then there are clichés that fit him so appropriately they stop being...
Remembering the last Bohemian and beat poet of Lahore
Apart from arts and dance, Bollywood and cuisine, India’s soft power resides in it being a society that respected its minorities, stood with the...
It is impossible to pick out ‘bad’ sections of the NAB law as the entire edifice is founded on denial of human rights
It is time to focus on what Parvez Elahi is saying and to what effect
When all this is over, what will become of the new soundscape and landscape re-discovered in dense cities? Will the butterflies and fireflies stay...
A subjective reading of the actor by a ‘non-serious’ film buff
World Press Freedom Day is being marked amidst silence this year, but this silence offers a possibility — of reflection, to see how the media...
The assumption is that soon it will be all over. Once it is, what we shall have learned as a civilisation is important
