The writer is a Princeton University graduate, currently doing research in Experimental Plasma Physics at Government College University Lahore. She can be reached at fatimafb@hotmail.com
A la Banksy’s Dismaland, The Millennial Trope ushers art out of the ‘sacred’ gallery into the ‘vulgar’ street
Tossed away by some as a manufactured consumer holiday, vilified by some as an anti-religious sin celebration, and embraced by others as an...
There’s no doubt that swelling crowds, with hands over their hearts and nohas on their lips, should lead their processions from under the feet of...
Flying back to Lahore on a repatriation PIA flight
DramaEd is a student collective dedicated to performing improv, stand-up, parody, and character sketches
Perhaps, the grass is greener on neither sides
With every man for himself, and sky as the limit, the youths of today live with immeasurable inner chaos
Most children at shrines are beggars disguised as sellers who use religious sentimentality as an exhortation tool
I do not know how, and why, more than half of our people live in a different age
To get lost in Prague and Vienna when you are young and free and surrounded by the company of people who get it
Four young friends explore this breathtaking German town at a time of day when nobody is awake yet and a tempestuous storm has overtaken the city
The reborn city Berlin resembles the consciences of its inhabitants who have managed to wipe clean the devastation and tragedy of the Holocaust that...
A Muslim girl celebrates Sabbath amidst a Jewish family in Frankfurt, and rekindles an old friendship on the road
At the 5th Jamil Omar Memorial Lecture, organised by the Awami Workers Party in Lahore recently, Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed addressed key questions on the...
In his debut collection of short stories, Akif Rashid moulds memories into characters to form a metanarrative of the evolution of self
‘Shehrezade: The Walled City Anthology’ re-imagined the stories that have moulded and shaped Lahore, through art works conceptualised and...
Eleven years since he lost his eyesight in the deadly FIA suicide bombing, Muhammad Asif is still struggling at his job as a photocopier,...
As winter transitions to spring, Faiz Aman Mela rejuvenates the message of social emancipation, reminding the deprived people to work for the...
Professors and students share their views on what a university means to them
