Reading Time: 4 minutes A play held in a theatre is much more than actors reciting their lines, sets being changed on the platform, music reverberating through the space, or a sense of being pulled into the play itself. Many forget that theatre has shaped nations. Whenever a country has…
Creative
Reading Time: 3 minutes For fourteen years, Coke Studio has brought together Pakistani artists, both from the old and the new to bring about a unique mix of music that has produced remarkable tracks for more than a decade. Every year saw an improvement in production quality as well as…
In the past decade alone, data collected has shown an astronomical rise in the use of social media. Staring off with now pioneered sites like MySpace and Friendster in the early 2000’s, social media has come a long way with a multitude of different platforms, each unique in its diversity and exceptional in their popularity.…
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…
The Horrors of Capitalism
Capitalism has not done the average man much good. That is something that most of us can agree on. One can always point the finger at the available alternates to the existing structures i.e socialism, communism, or the other quasi-socialist structures, that they have not done a decent job in replacing…
Anime and Pakistan are not two words that one would normally expect to hear together in the same sentence.
For the longest time in Pakistan, the idea of consuming media from foreign cultures that are not either Western (largely Hollywood) or Indian (Bollywood or the soap serials that surround it) has been, well, foreign.
Recently,…
In 1908 , French cartoonist named Emile Cohl created the first fully animated film named “Fantasmagorie” using some 700 drawings. Since then the industry has come a long way. In 2019 , the VFX, animation, and the gaming industry were valued at $264 billion. Pakistan jumped a little late in the game with the…
Does charisma matter? What is the one thing that makes people listen to someone? We have all seen a TED talk at some point in our lives, these talks are loved by thousands all over the globe; the reason is not always the subject matter but it is often because of the speaker too. More…
Stereotype threat has penetrated the society on different levels but its glaring evidence can be seen in social and academic circles where ethnic minorities and women are concerned. What is it? Simply put, the negative stereotypes of a group that is rampant in the society affect a member of that group so much so that…
Illiteracy is a plague that has held back Pakistan from truly thriving in the global sphere. However, lack of education and literate professionals is less of an issue than censorship. Barring literary journals, magazines, books and other forms of press media is the determining factor in the developmental stagnancy of the country at large. The…