Reading Time: 3 minutes The number of food insecure people rises every year in the region in general. However, this phenomenon of the Ramadan time inflation is significant every year. The rise in demand of food and staples especially eggs, oil, flour and meat tends to rise in this time…
Reading Time: 4 minutes expressed a desire to join the EU and NATO whilst trying to fight Russian pressures not to do so. Ukraine is positioned strategically between the EU and Russia and it is understandably not acceptable for Russia to possibly have NATO forces stationed so close.
The past few years of Pakistani dramas has been unfortunately very lacking. Compared to the burgeoning, evolving and innovating Cinema and Film scene in the country, Pakistani soaps and serial shows have been woefully stagnant. Fortunately, there seems to be signs of change recently as some show runners have begun experimenting with new dynamics and…
Comic book culture has been around for a long time. The art-form has been evolving for a while since its origins in Japan and has grown to massive proportions in the modern-day. They have been a large enough and distinct enough phenomenon in the last few decades that people that enjoy comic books have themselves…
The Wright Brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903 in North Carolina. On 20th July, 1969 the Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon. There were less than 70 years between these two monumental human achievements.
The human need to…
The Mukbang is a viral social media phenomenon that has been in the global virtual zeitgeist for more than a decade. As simple or mundane as it may seem, this popular trend has seen an explosion in popularity throughout the world.
Stemming from South East Asia, mainly South Korea, this trend has taken the world…
According to British historian, Lizzie Collingham:
"The conversion of the subcontinental population to tea-drinking was a result of what must have been the first major marketing campaign in the time of 20th century India. The British-owned Indian Tea Association, set itself the task for first creating a new habit among the population, and then spreading…
As a platform, YouTube isn't known for being too straightforward with its creators or audiences. In this article we will investigate the backdrop of YouTube's algorithmic changes in regards to assisting viewers with their recommendations. At the end of 2020, the algorithm went through another shift, and numerous vloggers and creators on YouTube were left…
Sexual orientation and gender identity are contested concepts within Pakistani society. Despite the differences between the two, they are often used interchangeably and are regarded as the same thing. While gender identity refers to the knowledge of your sex – knowing whether you are a man, a woman, or another gender, your sexual orientation is…
Until recently, the world’s largest population on death row was in Pakistan. China has since surpassed us in this category, but we continue to follow second in line, neck to neck with the USA. Around six thousand people are waiting to be executed in Pakistan, which raises the question: who are these people? Why are…