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heArtwork: One shredded paper at a time
In a school in the heart of Saddar, students of ages four to over thirty-five tear papers into smaller scraps. Others pick up the shredded bits, turning it into pulp that can be plastered onto the...
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Titanics of the air
A relic of a bygone era, the airship or the dirigible was a machine that, once upon a time, personified the adventurous European spirit. One can clearly picture these huge crafts, piloted by men...
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Burn after reading: The spymaster's guide to election symbols
ATTENTION: TO THE DG —– As we have reported in the past the —— civilians are getting out of hand. The democratic experiment we have thus far allowed to run, largely for —– and —– seems to have now...
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So you want to move to Canada, eh?
“It is not like they are welcoming you at the airport with a job letter,” says Hina Jawad*, who migrated to Canada from Pakistan in 2005 along with her family with high expectations but little in the...
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Healthy living: The skinny on fat
Are you in a panic because your bad cholesterol has increased? Are you looking for ways to reduce it naturally? For starters, the good cholesterol is called HDL or high-density lipoprotein and,...
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Film review: Mama - this is one scary Mama!
It may suffer from a few clichés, but Mama is one scary mama! Yes, at times this film on the supernatural directed by Andrés Muschietti was so frightening that it left me wishing for the presence of...
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What happens in Nepal doesn’t stay in Nepal
Life had been good for Sunyali Majhi, a farmer in Dolalghat, a small village about 50 kilometres from landlocked Nepal’s Kathmandu. She harvested enough rice to sell and feed her brood at home. But...
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Bridge, anyone?
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, two of the world’s richest men, play it. Other buffs include Pervez Musharraf, Anwar Maqsood, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Omar Sharif and even Snoopy from Peanuts. The game...
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Tech advice: Stuff that pushes our buttons
Men never grow up, or at least that is the common gripe. We are also accused of playing with toys. Actually, we do not play with toys. We collect action figures. We use gadgets and we install apps on...
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Review: Bates Motel - too close for comfort
Oedipal closeness has few signs, unless you are watching really closely. In the case of Norman Bates and his mother Norma Bates the creepy mother-son bond goes beyond more than just one alphabetic...
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Portfolio: The graveyard shift
The Gadani ship-breaking yard is the world’s third largest such enterprise. Stretched across a 10 km long beachfront, it is about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi. In the 1980s, Gadani was the...
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Travelogue: Where Gaudi meets Gujranwala
I have arrived in Barcelona: el corazón del Mediterráneo. Spain, the land with Andalusia in the south, of AlHambra where La Ghalib ilAllah (there is no conqueror but Allah) remains inscribed at every...
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Power hungry: Pennyfuellish
It is a stretch but some architects would argue that postcolonial complexes had a hand in contributing to our power crisis today. We used to know how to build our homes for the Pakistani climate. “The...
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Mistress of Spices
Persian eggplant caviar served with traditional flatbread and fresh herbs or Kashk e bademjoon o sangak e sabzi khordan. This is followed by Zereshk Polow or ‘jeweled rice’ adorned with almonds and...
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Science: Measure to manage
From brain drain to blood toxicity levels, here are a few new findings from the world of research with a focus on Pakistan. Looks don’t count How much you think you weigh could be important in...
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Bollywood's women: Caught between idol and item?
The darkened cinema is the space where desire is explored without fear. Each member of the audience can privately lose themselves in the moving image projected onto the great glowing screen in front...
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Is the Lahore Metrobus a folly or far-sighted?
The first thing you will notice is the eerie quiet after the doors shut. There are perhaps a few whispers, a cough, the humming of the air conditioning, and the pssst sound every time the driver...
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Book review: Delicate truths, plainly put
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, according to its author Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, is a “sort of a feminist manifesto” which she hopes “inspires men as much as it inspires women”....
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Comic review: Umru Ayar, the rebirth of a hero
Published by the popular online comic-strip team ‘Kachee Goliyan’, Umru Ayar: The Awakening is the promising first installment in an excitingly new Pakistani comic book franchise. Artist Ramish Safa...
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Healthy living: Spotless
Natural methods for mole removal may seem the cheapest but are not the wisest. By far the most innovative one requires you to peel it off with duct tape. But we highly recommend a trip to the...
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