Tag: social

Films are a form of art, and about art there are two theories: 1. Art for art's sake, and 2. ...

In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the ways in which big corporations exploit human psychology in pursuit ...

History is the greatest evidence and witness. Therefore, the victors and powerful are always scared of it. They love it ...

Since his acquisition of Twitter in October, Elon Musk has been relentlessly waxing lyrical about his commitment to free speech ...

Pakistanis are famous for doing wonders in social work for a long time, but people who live in the peripheries ...

Last month, the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) decision to organise a Women’s Sports Gala, a women-only event, stirred protests when ...

Qalandar, a fictional character, is Mohammad Shehzad’s brainchild. From the powerful to the poor – all visit his aastana (monastery) ...

Yasir Masih is a 30-year-old man working in a large-scale organisation in Pakistan as a sanitary worker. He has been ...

Feminism is neither an imperial constituency nor illusory cup of tea for any monopolising group in civil society. To me ...

I recently attended a series of sessions on how knowledge is acquired and realised – better late than never – ...

A few weeks ago, I had noticed journalist Haroon Rashid and Miss Marvel actress, Mehwish Hayat, call out Bollywood celebrities ...

One of the prime examples of history being moulded and misinterpreted in order to provide political justifications is the historiography ...

Since the ouster of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, most of the headlines of various newspapers, highlight contours of the monster ...

Over the past seven and a half decades we as a nation haven't achieved much to cherish, and find ourselves ...

Pakistan is among those nations where the youth have been completely ignored and left exposed to merciless tides. The memories ...

In any functioning democracy, the media is considered to be the fourth pillar of the state. The role of the ...

75 years back, at the time of the partition when there was bloodshed in the name of homeland, nation, and ...

“The market undercuts community, atomises the family and affects mental health by turning more of life into a scorecard competition” ...

Feudal culture has been an indispensable force in shaping the political arena of Pakistan. Feudalism, also known as feudality or ...

An audio clip allegedly of former prime minister Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi has been leaked on social media, in ...

Over the years, you might have heard plenty of philosophical mumbo-jumbo about the past: that the past is the present; ...

Even as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the government will impose a 10% "super tax" on large-scale industries to ...

The rapid rise of information and technology in the last decade has ushered in a new era of conflict and ...

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has opined that Pakistan’s difficulties arise from the fact that governments that had a popular ...

On a cloudy summer morning, passing through the densely populated streets of Hatirjheel, a lakefront area in the heart of ...

Political identities formed by ideologies at the core of which is the hatred of ‘the other’ are fragile and volatile. ...