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Book review: Vying for Allah’s Vote - Is right wrong?
The current debate in international relations fails to distinguish Islamic parties in Pakistan from Islamist parties, making for an oversight which shrouds the multifarious nature of these groups,...
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Movie review: The Two Faces of January - two’s company, three’s a treat
The Iranian-British screenwriter, Hossein Amini, has enjoyed a great deal of success with the modern cult classic Drive, amongst his other projects. Now, Amini adds another feather to his cap with his...
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Pregnancy-related anemia: Red light
Anemia is the latest addition to the long list of maternal health issues in Pakistan. The national nutritional surveys reveal that the number of women with anemia in the county has increased from 28%...
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Floral business: In full bloom
At Teen Hatti, Karachi, men handle flowers with rough hands. Trucks piled high with tokris carrying a variety of flora from Lahore, Hyderabad and Memon Goth in Gadap Town are unloaded every morning....
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Kashi Kari: Down to earth
Kaka Ghulam Soomro claims he has spent almost every single day of the past 40 years of his working life at the Kashi centre in Hala, Sindh. “There are no off days for us. I can’t live a day without...
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Pakistan's street children: Concrete dreams
Home is not a place, but a reality — a set of circumstances that one is born in. But for the nearly 1.5 million street children in Pakistan, the only home they know is cruel, crowded and concrete....
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Movie review: X-Men - winging the X-factor
Hope, a crucial human attribute, is also the central theme of the lucrative X-Men films. It defines the plot and the motivation driving the characters in the latest installment of the franchise,...
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Show review: Mad Men - sold
Lately a notion has been making the rounds that TV is slowly but surely becoming better than cinema. It’s that ‘cool’ thing to say when you’re at a party, right after you have confessed your love for...
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Show review: 24 - a ticking clock
In season nine of 24, that reappeared after a long hiatus of four years, the world is changing. Unfortunately the nature of war(s) has gotten murkier and Jack Bauer has emerged from the shadows to...
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FIFA: Football’s biggest prize
The world’s biggest sporting spectacle, the FIFA World Cup, is back. And this time around, it is bigger than ever. Organised by FIFA, the international governing body of football, and hosted by the...
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Microalgae magic: Small wonder
The sight of algae suspended in seemingly putrid water, be it in an untended swimming pool or the edge of a lake, is sure to make one wince. But if this water is transferred to a beaker and used to...
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Malaysia: Soul act
At the foot of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the drumbeats set the tone for the evening. On the brightly illuminated street below, around 600 boys and girls sway to the rhythm of the music...
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DJ industry in Pakistan: On the playlist
As sweaty bodies sway to pulsating beats on the smoke-filled dance floor, few notice the guy seated behind the laptop screen with his elaborate turntable, mixer and speakers, who is the real life of...
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Album review: Ghost Stories - drifting away
Coldplay’s new album, Ghost Stories, was one of the most anticipated releases of the year even before Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, the band’s front man, split after 10 years of marriage and...
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Book review: Mirages of the Mind - making light of dark times
Sometimes the only way to survive loss and life is by resorting to humour. Mirages of the Mind, the English translation of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s Urdu novel Aab-e-Gum, is all about that. One of...
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Crisis management: Bite the bullet
Time is of the essence when it comes to treating a gunshot wound. Faisal Javed Mir, a senior trainer and consultant at First Aid to Save A Life (FATSAL), guides you on how to stabalise a gunshot...
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Animal welfare: St(r)ay safe
Growing up in a house full of pets gave Ayesha Chundrigar an informal, intuitive education in empathy and respect for animals at a young age. She was only nine years old when she began volunteering at...
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Palwasha Bashir: No crown for courting
Despite being one of topmost female athletes in the country, Palwasha Bashir is not a household name in Pakistan. The 26-year-old from Karachi is the reigning badminton national champion and has...
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Khushwant Singh: The final homecoming
It was in the “winter of 1987”, as Khushwant Singh, the acclaimed Indian author, diplomat and journalist, recalled in his autobiography, that he last walked down the streets of his native village...
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HR management: The (new) rules of engagement
Traditionally, the primary function of a human resource (HR) manager is to ‘attract, retain, train and separate the talent’. HR personnel use much of their time carrying out tests and interviews for...
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