Reading Time: 5 minutes stival of Hilaria. Others insist that the Hindu festival of Holi is related as it is celebrated around the same time, but it is highly unlikely because Holi celebrations are quite different from April Fool’s day.
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Putin and Russia have found themselves in quite a predicament. An “operation” expected to last a week at most has stretched to almost a month now as the Ukrainian people resort to guerilla warfare to impede Russian tank convoys.
The Russians have suffered losses in personnel and expensive armor with demoralized troops and trucks without…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The evidence that Pakistan is a linguistically rich country is in the fact that as of 2016, it had 73 spoken languages as reported by Ethnologue. The data continued to show that out of the number, 66 of the languages spoken are indigenous, 8 are nonnative,…
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 After the deadly snowstorm, the local businesses decided to charge a ridiculous amount for mundane things upon noticing that the people were stuck and had nowhere else to go. Hotels that used to charge Rs 6000 – 10,000 per 24 hours during the season escalated their…
It is easy to get our facts lost in the fog of war following the recent conflict in Ukraine. Our hearts go out to those suffering in the conflict and we hope that the violence comes to an end before more blood is shed.
To get a better understanding of the Realpolitik behind the current…
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 culture of overworking is often associated with the tech or finance industry. While some experts say that the glorification of work started at the turn of the millennia and others pin it on the spread of mercantilism in the 16th century. David Spencer, teaching economics at Leeds University Business School put forward, “There has…
Inside the hustling and bustling city of Lahore, there exists a dark territory near the Taxali Gate of the Walled City. The Heera Mandi, also known as, Shahi Muhallah (royal neighborhood), was once a place of dance, music, and a school of etiquettes for the children of Nawabs and royalties. However, it has now turned…
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…
