Adil Najam
Today is Mother’s Day.
Everyday should be a day to cherish and to honor what our mothers do for us. But it is good that on one day at least we take a few minutes out to think of that which can sometime become so routine that it becomes easy to forget. So, today, and […]
By Aisha Sarwari
What are the odds that I move into a house in the elite F/11 sector of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad and our land lord turns out to be a wife-beater?
1 in 4, according to the United Nations report on gender 2007. Flip it around and the same applies to 25% of all women in […]
Nadeem Omar
Much like the last photograph in our series on the F.E. Chaudhry Collection, this photograph is also about women at work. But in a different way.
This photograph, taken in Lahore probably in the 1960s, brings to light many Pakistani realities; some of which have changed, and some not.
Nadeem Omar
In this, the first in our series of photographs from the F.E. Chaudhry Collection, we want to feature this remarkable photograph taken on a Lahore street-side, probably in the 1950s.
A group of four young women unabashedly sitting in a row on a road side in Lahore, picking each other’s heads for lice and so […]
Adil Najam
As a rule, we try not to repeat posts too often. Sometimes, we feel that the message is either pertinent again or that the original may not have been seen by a new crop of readership. I am reposting this picture and this post, originally posted on this date last year, because the message […]
Adil Najam
I have always been mesmerized by Rashma’s voice. It is a voice unlike any other I know. Truly it is the voice of the desert - unending in its breadth and unrelenting in its depth. A voice that comes from the heart and a one that always touches the heart.
Although she is probably best […]
Raza Rumi
The other day when my spouse complained for the umpteenth time about the peculiar attitudes of men towards their female counterparts in Pakistani workplaces, I had no option but to be blunt.
“You need to get real,” I yelled. “You must shed all notions of human complexity when dealing with the Pakistani male. He’s a […]
