The author studied Political Theory at Harvard College. He can be reached at kamilchima@gmail.com.
It’s a tough task conveying what the scene is like in young urban Pakistan. Because it’s all over the place
Have you got your summer travel plan sorted out? To the lesser known towns in Europe or to where water stretches out to the horizon in ‘seven...
How different is the dance of love in the digital age?
Chorangis and khayabans, distinct smell and feel the morning after rains, harrowing sea breeze, classes of water -- it’s a new city but...
I felt quite like the boy, from one of Intizar Hussain’s Urdu short stories, who goes walk-about in search for the clouds only to return to his...
It is unrelenting, it is costly. It saps and drains you, as life does. And yet it is the same, as it was all those years ago…
The joys of flying kites were immense
Whenever I turn a page of the many society magazines that are assuredly flourishing in Pakistan, I am reminded of those scenes from college…
Friendship herein usually runs deep. It has aged and evolved with you
By observing the difference and the similarity between any two generations, one can learn a whole lot
By hearkening back to history and mythology, Ajoka’s latest play Dukh Darya endeavours to find the source of sorrow which plagues the stories of...
Kopykats Productions’ ongoing play Bananistan at Ali Institute of Education, a political satire comprising series of gag-reels and skits, seeks...
Star power was on full show at the FIF ‘16, as the festival activities veered towards all things cinema, chiefly of popular variety
It’s actually fun talking to this guy
The under-belly of Lahore under its many bridges
Every now and then they summon the courage to tell us stories that make us recalibrate our way of thinking
National College of Arts recently hosted a screening of Mahera Omar’s documentary, ‘The Rebel Optimist,’ an intimate portrait of architect and...
Ranjit Singh, the first ethnic son to rule the land after eight long centuries of foreign rule
To keep afresh his mind during a hectic fortnight of travelling the author gave himself a list of words to convert into one paragraph. The following...
The Walled City of Lahore remains -- insular despite no walls; somewhat ancient despite the creeping modernity
