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…
Kaavan – World’s loneliest elephant
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…
Social and Physical Bullying
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…
Lights, Camera, Transgression: Mental Health Misrepresented?
“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…
The Inequality that exists throughout in form of Poverty
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…
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
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…
Environment in Pakistan: Overview and Analysis
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,…
Medical Malpractice in Pakistan
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…
Julie’s case – The increase in discrimination against the Transgender Community.
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…
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR PREVALENT IN TEENAGERS
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….
The reality of despair
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…
Modern-Day Slavery: A Reality not yet Realized
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,…
Human Rights Abuses in Kashmir – In Light of the International Bill of Rights Kashmir
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,…
Misogyny and depictions of domestic abuse in television
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…
A NEW DAWN OF TRANSGENDER RIGHTS
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…
Mental Health, Policies and Inclusion of Neurodivergent People
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 and Economic Growth
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…
Drug Abuse: The warm feeling leaving you cold inside
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…
Sexual Violence in Indian occupied Kashmir
“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…
The Reality of Child Labour in Pakistan
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…
The dreadful Year for Kashmir
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…
The faulted crux of our animalistic evolution
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…
A World Without Water
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…