Culture

In the early 2000s, a T-Shirt became popular among the then young ‘millennials.’ The message on the T-Shirt said, “I’m...

Every few weeks one reads that Pakistan and India have granted visas to religious pilgrims or built a special corridor...

The smell of henna-filled hands clad in cloth or plastic shoppers, to prevent it from dripping and coloring the walls....

I was making my way through Gangaramaya temple at night when it's glowing like a pearl suitably perched in the...

What the nations of the world do in their daily lives is called culture. Culture has two types, material and...

If I were to sit down and make a list of ten people who have impressed and influenced me most...

Spring in every culture is a time of rebirth, renewal. In Washington D.C., it is when the tulips and daffodils...

Who is consumed during the process of art-making? Is the art, artist, or spectator? Art can also be seen as...

The second edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will be held digitally on the 31st of March and the...

I’ll Meet You There is the brainchild of the critically acclaimed and incredibly talented filmmaker, writer and director Iram Parveen...

The tradition of making wooden funerary statues of the ancestors, locally called a gandao, still continues in the three valleys...

For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very...

After Life season 3 is a continuation of the grief and heartbreak that comes after the demise of Tony Johnson’s...

Often a vivid blur as they meander through heavy traffic on main roads and narrow alleys, rickshaws have served as...

Sadequain was an iconic cult persona of his time. His symbols are blatant like his poetry. He was a master...

The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen! Lata Mangeshkar, one of the world’s biggest cultural icons and a singer...

Pakistan has been juggling the roles of a progressive Islamic republic along with the dual image of a nation that...

The media is regarded as a social transformation agent. It has the ability to almost hypnotise us all. In the...

Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not...

The pandemic has changed the world as we know it. The isolation, the quarantine, the shut off borders and above...

Coca-Cola Pakistan hosted the first ever Coke Studio Live concert in Lahore at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club...

In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West...

India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social...

ظفر:"میں تمہاری طرح کنڈیشنڈ نہیں ہونا چاہتا." صدیقی: لیکن تم اس طرح کمرے میں مقید جالے کی طرح کب تک...

Our culture thrives on the art of stories. It has been embodied by story tellers who wove magic and created...

Bashir Mirza (BM), artist extraordinaire, has already been examined through many lenses and multiple perspectives earlier, by many. It isn’t...