A friend and I have a regular habit of discussing public policy in Pakistan. We are no experts on many policy topics, but we share our opinions on government policies with utmost confidence. That, of course, does not mean that we are right. Naturally, Asad Umar’s resignation was a hot topic for us this recently. […]
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Danny Goldberg’s book is a fascinating account of his years inside Nirvana’s drama
On March 25, 1994 — just 11 days before Kurt Cobain died by suicide — Danny Goldberg flew to Seattle in? a desperate attempt to save his life. “I felt impotent,” he recalled of the intervention. “Just a few months earlier, he had told a journalist I was like a ‘second father’ to him…now I […]
Breaking the shackles
For the past two decades, we have become keen consumers of Indian dramas. All though the story boarding remains elementary and the theme of most of these dramas are refined to household struggle. However, there is one very interesting change that has occurred. Indian dramas have always shown women living a very domestic life […]
A tribute to Madeeha Gauhar
Yeah hamein thay jin kay libas per sir rah sehaye likhi gaye Yehi dagh thay jo saja kay hum sir bazm a yar chalay gaye Na rah janoon rukha a wafa, yeah rasam yeah daar karo gay kya Jinhain jurm a ishq pay naaz tha, woh gunah gar chalay gaye (It is us whose clothes […]
What Bhaghi taught me
So, after watching famous drama serial ‘Bhaghi‘, I realised that every girl is Qandeel Baloch. Yes, you are reading it right. If we do not post videos of ourselves on Social Media, it is because of the fear of that one line we have grown up listening to ‘Log Kya Kahain Gay?‘. We think twice […]