A cold dark night suddenly fills up with sounds and shadows that threaten to overpower … It was a cold winter night and I was sleeping in my warm and cosy bed. My cousins had come to stay with me at my house. The sound of thunder could be heard in the distance, but getting closer by each… Read More »
During a prank, a student stuck a paper on his classmate’s back that said “I’m stupid”; he asked the rest of the class not to tell him.Thus the students began laughing throughout the day… Shortly after, math class started & their professor wrote a difficult question on the board.No one was able to answer it except that student.… Read More »
Lahore: In the wake of nationwide floods causing massive damage to crops, the prices of vegetables have sky-rocketed in Pakistan’s Lahore with tomatoes costing as much as Rs 500 per kilogram (in Pakistani rupee), the media reported. Shopkeepers have set arbitrary prices after the supply chain was disrupted by floods, reported Samaa TV. Onion is being sold at Rs… Read More »
Grown throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas, bamboo refers to any one of about 1,450 species in the Poaceae family. Most varieties of bamboo are incredibly hardy, and grow well in both tropical and cold, mountainous climates. They’re among the fastest growing plants in the world, capable of growing up to 60 centimeters in a single day. Today,… Read More »
A story of two sisters named Great (Akbari) and Small (Asghari)–right from the start we’re in didactic territory. Don’t we already sense that the younger sister will be the heroine? If there were a sister named Middle too, the fairy-tale likeness would be complete. The Bride’s Mirror (Mirat ul-Arus) may or may not have been the first Urdu novel,… Read More »
I will never understand what it’s like to become a father. I imagine it is as central to one’s own existence as motherhood, but colored by a different set of expectations and desires. When my husband and I first learned that I was pregnant, we were both overjoyed, incandescent. When we found out we were expecting a boy,… Read More »
“It is my belief that a people who value their own freedom cannot be envious of others’ liberty and I find much evidence of this in what I see of the British society here,” Iqbal wrote to the editor of a nationalist newspaper of Lucknow a few months after his arrival in England. He was commenting on the… Read More »
We estimate that over 900 people left the UK to engage with the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Many have been killed fighting, some remain there, some have returned and others could still come back. Some irresponsibly took young British children with them, and some had children while they were there as part of their mission to expand… Read More »
The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan’s total land area was affected by floods, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province facing the brunt of the damage and casualties (above 90% of all the deaths occurred in the province).Nationwide, there were 1,985 deaths.According to Pakistani government data, the floods… Read More »
A tawaif was a highly successful entertainer who catered to the nobility of the Indian subcontinent, particularly during the Mughal era. The tawaifs excelled in and contributed to music, dance (mujra), theatre, and the Urdu literary tradition,[1] and were considered an authority on etiquette. Tawaifs were largely a North Indian institution central to Mughal court culture from the 16th century onwards and became even more prominent with the… Read More »