Reddit-Trading: Wall Street confronted with massive change
Silver prices surged to an eight-year high as Reddit traders from r/WallStreetBets hopped onto the stock, having previously fueled paramount frenzy with the shares...
Living History: My infantile urge to gain revenge led to my association with Al-Zulfiqar...
Vivid and vast, the lived experiences of individuals carry more weight than the pages of history books; fleshing out the empty spaces between the...
Collaborate, Cheat, Repeat: How Pakistani students are acing online exams
Shariq* is a lawyer because of the novel coronavirus.
When asked about it, he will tell generations after him how a raging pandemic wreaked havoc...
In the battle between Lahore Qalandars and Karachi Kings, Punjab provides the soldiers
Lahore versus Karachi is an old rivalry. For decades people of both cities have compared their culture, food, history, language and of course cricket...
Sugar price hike: the not-so-sweet story
But maybe that’s the irony of sugar. It does not give us sweet words to articulate rather a sharp tongue that is only used to criticize others. Maybe sugar only truly reflects itself in the form of our older generation injecting insulin in their tummies.
Dealing with peer pressure
As kids, our friendships are guided by our parents as the primary caregivers and led by who they choose to be our playdate. The...
Mass resignations; constitutional crisis or political stunt?
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is threatening the government with mass resignations from the National Assembly. But is this a real threat? Will it...
Racial profiling: Constructing the ‘violent Pashtun’ in our collective imagination
Racial power asymmetry is part of the popular global discourse that most people are familiar with. Only last month, Derek Chauvin—the police officer accused...
The satirist and the state: Stand-up comedy in Pakistan
In a country whose greatest derogatory slurs are rooted in the acts of singing and performing, artists seldom lead easy lives. Words like 'miraasi'...
Why are Pakistani authors doing better in India?
With the third largest English-speaking population in the world, one would expect Pakistan to be teeming with novelists unravelling the threads of existence in...
