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The Missionary and the Tribesmen

“Please do not be angry at them or God if I get killed,” These were the missionary’s last words. His body was seen being dragged across the shore and buried by the tribal locals, riddled by arrows of archaic design. John Allen Chau, fond of traveling the world, made it his mission to introduce Christianity…

BySaad RashidMarch 6, 20210Comments

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Running from our problems-The right thing to do?

The advent of the pandemic has affected our lives in so many ways that it is difficult to document them all. Like whack-a-mole, more and more of the effects of the spreading disease and the ensuing quarantine period are coming to the fore. Apart from rising mental illnesses, high unemployment rates, and skyrocketing cases of…

BySaad RashidFebruary 22, 20211Comment

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Sufism in Pakistan and Its Portrayal in Mass Media

Sufism (tasawwuf) refers to a spiritual branch of Islam, a mystical belief system that promotes principles and practices that aim at direct communication between a human being and God. Sufi practices are specifically designed to free people of any desires that could keep them from the experience of pure divine love. It demands complete abandonment…

ByZainab HasanFebruary 14, 20210Comments

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Language and Privilege – The Cannoli Incident

Most of us have now been acquainted with the happenings of the “Cannoli Incident” as it has become known around social media. For any of you that decided to stay off of social media since the middle of this month, or are only aware of what happened through the multitude of memes that made the…

BySaad RashidJanuary 28, 20210Comments

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Anime and Pakistan: The Japanese Artform Making Its Way To Pakistani Living Rooms.

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,…

BySaad RashidJanuary 25, 20210Comments

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Genghis khan and Global warming

The mention of Genghis Khan evokes images of war, carnage, and archers riding horses, raining death in the form of arrows. The impact of his rise and the expansion of the Mongol Empire in the 12th century is discussed, and felt, to this day. Who was Genghis Khan? Genghis Khan rose from complete anonymity and…

BySaad RashidDecember 28, 20200Comments

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The Vilification of Akbar

In the long history of the Mughals, the dynasty that reigned supreme in the subcontinent since the later sixteenth century, there are none more discussed than Emperor Akbar. The Emperors ruled for three centuries, way into the 19th century as well (though their influence had petered out towards the end thanks to the coming of…

BySaad RashidDecember 22, 20200Comments

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Needles Bias: The Stigma Surrounding Artists in Pakistan

The significance of art is made apparent quite early on in our lives, when we’re taught everything through colors and shapes in kindergarten. It is the foundation we build ourselves on from a very young age. Children’s books being just as visual as they are textual was never an aimless or arbitrary decision; it has…

ByZainab HasanDecember 7, 20200Comments

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Can the Mind Detect Cheaters?

So many people consider evolution to just be a theory but if the evidence is analyzed, it can be seen that it is a fact. The study of evolution has opened up many secrets to the researchers and has proven that the human brain has evolved to incorporate programs that help human beings adapt to…

BySeirut JavedNovember 19, 20200Comments

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The Necessity of fighting Negativity Bias

When we say “bad is stronger than good”, we are generally referring to the phenomena that the effects of bad things outweigh the good things in a human’s life. Bad means that the event or situation harms one’s mind while good means that it has a positive effect. It has been concluded that bad…

BySeirut JavedNovember 12, 20200Comments

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