
Low Income: Not a Curse
Stale food, old clothes, leftover items, and toys our kids don’t find attractive enough. That’s all we have to give to our maids, no? And still, we expect complete sincerity…
Stale food, old clothes, leftover items, and toys our kids don’t find attractive enough. That’s all we have to give to our maids, no? And still, we expect complete sincerity…
After waiting for more than 35 years, Kaavan is no longer world’s loneliest elephant. The animal was kept in the Marghuzar Zoo in Islamabad. Although the zoo was built just…
In today’s date, we fail to have a complete understanding of the difference between social and physical bullying. What is bullying? Bullying. It’s such a strong word, such a frightening…
“False portrayal is worse than no portrayal” – Sara Metwalli There is no denial of the role that the media plays in shaping the mindsets of the masses, particularly about…
A community-based condition that is distinguished by a certain minimum point of the standard of living expected for the place where one lives or the lack of resources mandatory for…
In a world where evil runs rampant, where the innocent are locked up and the abusers live free, where lies are mostly portrayed as the truth, where friends turn into…
Karachi rainfalls, Lahore’s smog, and melting Himalayas are just some of the examples of climate change in Pakistan. Pakistan has a minute contribution to total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission,…
There is perhaps, no greater paradox than the healthcare system of Pakistan. Very few professions garner the amount of adoration and blind trust as those in Pakistan’s hospitals while also…
Imagine being disowned by your own family. Imagine being forced to live with strangers. Imagine being forced to beg on the streets for the rest of your life. Imagine being…
Antisocial personality disorder; A war with yourself Antisocial behavior simply put is a disruptive behavior where alarm and distress is caused. Disregard for others as well as one’s own self….
Trigger warning: Suicide If you’re reading this and feel helpless, I want you to remember that reaching out is always better than not feeling worthy enough to live. You are…
Slavery may have been abolished a century and a half back, an achievement for the abolitionist movement indeed, the greatest trophy and an unparalleled step forward for human rights. However,…
The land where screams are muffled behind fallen rubble, where the souls of children are sent to earth with destinies marked in blood, where men wail in horror every day,…
Take any Pakistani television show from the past few years, and you’ll see one underlying element present in all of them. There are no thrillers, murder mysteries, courtroom dramas and…
The word ‘Transgender” has always had a great stigma surrounding it. However, this was not always the case. For centuries Transgenders kept a position of great power in the courts…
Of all the crises our world is currently facing, the increasing ratio of mental health disorders combined with attached stigmas, lack of resources, and lack of treatment is a significant…
Literacy is the potential to read. Whereas, the sum of literate individuals in a given age classification, demonstrated as a percentage of the entire population in that age group is…
Fourteen, A raw yet so fearless age she was fourteen when she first came across the feeling of being numb, the feeling of complete and utter serenity. She still remembers…
“These soldiers grabbed me, tore my pheran, my shirt – I don’t even know what happened after that. There were five of them. I still remember their faces.” This was…
In preindustrial economies, child labour was an intrinsic part of the society primarily because the welfare and the productivity of the community was dependent on it. At the time the…
One year has passed since the life of 12.5 million Kashmiris changed tremendously. On August 5, 2019, Article 370 was revoked by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which stripped off…
Since the start of civilization, there has been a deep-rooted relationship between humankind and animals. If we were to trace our steps back in history, the relation has always been…
2020 has been a challenging year for everybody so far as it brought changes to the world that none of us had ever imagined. Life is changing daily and these…