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A reflection on love, grief, loyalty, and the quiet ways animals change us I have always had a love for animals. From an early age I found them to be receptive, empathetic, and considerably better at stress relief than anything a therapist has ever suggested to me. From the early days when I acquired Loki…
It Starts With a WhatsApp Message Someone you know has died. You find out the way you find out about most things in Pakistan now — not from a relative arriving at your door with that specific expression, not from the slow terrible gathering of family that used to precede the news itself. You find…
A critical look at digital aesthetics, age erasure, and the psychology of girlhood aesthetics Bows on everything. Micro-minis. Pastel cardigans. “Coquette.” “Balletcore.” “Dollette.” The internet has a new template for the ideal feminine aesthetic — and it looks suspiciously like a twelve-year-old’s wardrobe. The Algorithm Has an Aesthetic Open TikTok, Pinterest, or Instagram on any…
Closure: Final page turns on Saeed Book Bank Peshawar – The Express Tribune When i was a child my best moments in my formative years were spent in a bookshop close to my house which would let me rent any book or comic I needed for a sum of money I could afford growing up….
To say that pakistan has a serious dearth of theatre and musicals which form an even more niche part of this industry would be the understatement on the year. Overworked underpaid and struggling, the industry has a few backers and supporters in this country where arts as a profession neither fits in with…
Its hard to shut it off…its a constant stream… your mind can shut off your body can shut off your senses can shut off but the stream goes on…you wake up and the phone is jumping around buzzing like a mosquito…I only woke up early on this particular day because it buzzed about 200 times…
Social media has recently been inundated with an international outpouring of sympathy for a 3 year old Syrian child washing up on the beach in turkey. Memes have been made out of him, his father the only living survivor of this tragedy has been interviewed extensively and calls have been made for better or for…
These were the words spoken to me by a smiling girl with glasses in a small cafe which was the first version of T2F many years ago here in Karachi, . The premise was me sitting and hammering something out on a laptop mini I had at that time and her coming over to invite…
By :Â Arman Imam A nocturnal, lazy teenager whose first loves are good food, playing sports and all things cricket. (This article was written before news of haris sohail’s injury came out) Match Preview: When the Proteas meet Pakistan in Auckland on Saturday, it will be a battle of the two extremities of the cricketing spectrum….
Lets call a spade a spade here shall we, what happened at the offices of Charlie Hebdo last Wednesday was a grotesque act of savagery and murder & what happened at the same offices before the attack in the name of cartoons and satire wasn’t anything short of extremely offensive and demeaning either. Demeaning not…