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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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Paranoid Maulvies and the Vilification of Vaccines

As this article is being written, more than 150 million people worldwide have received the COVID 19 vaccine. China has gifted Pakistan with half a million doses and the frontline workers have already started receiving the vaccine. However, when the first few doses were being administered it was followed by press conferences by health specialists…

BySaad RashidFebruary 17, 20210Comments

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GameStock-A win for the Proletariat

Most of us have become familiar with the terms “Short-selling”, “GameStop” and “Buy and Hold” over the last month or so. Even if most of you have never dabbled in the stock market, or have ever shown enough interest to want to learn about it, it has become an inescapable part of the news cycle.…

BySaad RashidFebruary 9, 20210Comments

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The Vilification of Fantasy Under Capitalism

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…

BySaad RashidFebruary 2, 20210Comments

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The Devastating Prevalence of Violence against Transgender and Intersex Communities

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…

ByKhudeeja AsifJanuary 18, 20210Comments

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India and Pakistan – Two stories about one place.

India and Pakistan are quite similar in culture, language, and cuisine. Even though the separation of the subcontinent came about ostensibly due to the fact that Muslims and Hindus could not live in a single state in harmony, we are more alike than we are dissimilar. We eat the same food, we have similar marriage…

BySaad RashidJanuary 6, 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 FARMER’S PROTEST IN INDIA AND WHY IT CONCERNS ALL OF US

The Indian agriculture sector could be considered the country’s economic rock, yet it’s powered by some of the poorest, most underprivileged people living there. Despite India being the largest cultivator of several different kinds of produce consumed all over the world, the farmers there often find it difficult to make ends meet where their own…

ByZainab HasanDecember 25, 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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