The author is a freelance journalist and a previous member of staff. She tweets @JMaham
There is no singular way to deal with child sexual abuse. We have to fight it at various levels and all of it must be simultaneous
The idea is not to eavesdrop, but to improvise, imagine, and create stories about strangers across the aisle, while keeping facts in sight
Foreign spouses of Pakistani citizens are too afraid to reveal their identity after the government imposed a ban on issuance and renewal of Pakistan...
Reading the data and making sense of the statistics
Why online sexual harassment persists, or what could be done to battle it?
What if provincial governments went about collecting quantitative and qualitative data about divorce? Would that impact legal and social policy?
Interview: Sa'adia Khan
... about breast cancer and what they do with that information are two separate things
Navigating dirty puddles and the dirtier eyes of men on the road
This week Pakistan joined the moral panic party surrounding the ‘Blue Whale Challenge’. Here is a detailed article separating fact from fiction
Shandana Minhas is the founder of Mongrel Books, a press based in Karachi, and the author of three books
Do all fiction readers experience book hangovers? How does one come to term with this kind of grief...
Here’s an attempt to unpack the problem Pakistanis have with stray dogs
Director Alankrita Shrivastava tells compelling stories of four ordinary women without having her characters pander to the male gaze
While the world seems to be moving towards decentralised renewable energy, Pakistan remains focused on powering our national grid with fossil fuels....
The idea of a plural India is being challenged like never before
There is much to love in Lahore, as only a Karachiite can appreciate
Lack of information and awareness about the virus, delay in government intervention at the national level, persistent dearth and corruption of...
This particular train memory defied genres -- tragi-comedy, thriller, and perhaps a cautionary tale about booking the right cabin, all rolled into one
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