Rest in Peace, Bloom Bardolator Brontosaurus
In the summer of 2018, a friend who was until then still majoring in English literature alongside me at the Lahore University of Management...
Peekaboo, I see you!
Relationships contribute in many ways to who we are and how we see ourselves. They may bring us the greatest joys or be our...
Media Watch: If there was one thing worth watching this week
The legitimacy of the electoral process after which the present government has come into power used to stoke a lot of emotions. The supporters...
Azadi aur Bandookein
ProperGaanda take a lighter look at Indo-Pak relations in the past 73 years
ProperGaanda, a local news and digital media publishing platform, recently released a...
Pakistan’s options for climate geo-engineering
It is the right time that Pakistan starts exploring the research and governance options regarding climate geoengineering (CGE). Although Pakistan has a tiny share in...
Rethinking water and urban design
With the monsoon season now in full swing, residents of major urban centers in Pakistan will have to see sights they are all too...
Media Watch: Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?
Our story today starts with an American gentleman who goes by ‘Lenny.’ One evening, he was sitting at a bar on election night, 2016.
“And...
Media Watch: On letting ‘monsters’ speak
Not too long ago - much lesser than a decade, actually - this very column was a tad critical of the MQM in an...
Media Watch: Haha, a mistake, a MISTAKE!
Readers might have seen a video clip of a talk show doing the rounds these days. In a program presumably about the economy, a...
Media Watch: ‘Ungrateful Afghans’
This writeup (titled 'Patriotic Racism') was written back in 2016, but the conversations that make their way to the airwaves and the press are...
The Eye of the Camera
Photography as a genre is evolving rapidly in Pakistan. Over the past decade, Pakistan has seen an influx of international magazines expanding their portfolio...
Tracing Pakistani Cinema from before partition to the present
- Book Review: “Pakistani Cinema 1947-1997” by Mushtaq Gazdar
Producing an average of 60 films per year, the cinema in Pakistan holds a place amongst...
Media Watch: Twitter Trials
A series of acerbic exchanges on twitter this week, each of them more of a dumpster fire than the last. And all of them...
Of Dream-scapes. Insects and Human flesh
Often, one thinks of artistic thought within the boundaries of a canvas, with a view to enjoy the piece in the privacy of an...
Media Watch: Vindication and virality
The Republican candidacy of Donald Trump - what to speak of his victory in the presidential election itself - was such an outlandish prospect,...
Media Watch: Here’s to good manners
It is election time in India (do read up on a tidy piece on why Indian elections take so damn long in The Economist)...
Media Watch: Sensitivity training
The death of a child is something that would invoke a sympathy for the worst of your adversaries. Or for the politicians whom you...
