There is a great deal of Urdu poetry about the various incidents mentioned in the epic. A scene of Ramayana. Paris, musée Guimet – musée national des Arts asiatiques. MA2765 – Richard Lambert The epics are read on multiple levels; The many stories contained within an epic can be "broken down" and interpreted in different […]
Climate stories Pakistan traveled throughout the country to collect stories from people. Pakistan is the most vulnerable country to climate change. How is life in such conditions? The Climate Stories Pakistan team traveled throughout the country to collect stories about people's climate suffering and resistance. These accounts show the human dimension of climate change and,
It is time to avoid passivity and actively participate in the defense of the climate. Students in the climatic march in Karachi. – Photo by Kamran Nafees Coping with the news about climate change can be exhausting, especially when each subsequent story seems to be worse than the last. We can choose to block the
The trick to make the most of this picturesque city is simple: don't think too much about what to do, where to go, what to eat. What is blue and white, next to the sea and super Instagrammable? Santorini might be the obvious answer, but a cheaper, less crowded and equally beautiful answer, if not
The LDA is placing the car in front of the horse and ramming it against Lahore. In a tweet in March earlier this year, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that the cities of Pakistan must grow vertically to preserve our green spaces and reduce expansion. Although well intentioned, Khan is not an architect or urban
Yugo saw Pakistan as a real country where human beings live and breathe. One of the most lasting attractions of fiction is the possibility of representation it offers. It is not this hope that – fiction consumers – you get to see yourself in a story. This idea that your desires, frustrations and experiences will
From funerals to schools and people's lives, the change in normalcy is amazing. Security personnel are on duty on a street in Srinagar. ─ AFP On the first Saturday of September, when our flight landed at Srinagar airport, the airline staff announced: "You can now use your mobile phones." Some of the cashmere on board,
Overlooking parliament in this way is not a good omen for the democratic project. Prime Minister Imran Khan addressing parliament. – White Star Earlier this year, the government led by Buzdar in Punjab dissolved all elected local governments in the province, in the middle of the five-year period guaranteed by the relevant law. The dissolution
The call to murder is the maximum distraction. It is the most cynical act of manipulation. The bodies of three young children who were raped and killed in Kasur were discovered less than a year after Imran Ali's execution for the rape and murder of young Zainab. Imran Ali, despite calls for a public execution,
The study has become a relic of yesteryear. Off Multan Road in Lahore is a fascinating piece of celluloid history that wobbles slowly. Built in the early 1950s by producer Malik Bari, Bari Studios was where a great Lollywood movie was filmed. The studio housed multiple rooms, study rooms, movie sets, a laboratory and all