culture

Not to speak of an elite class in Pakistan, just take an example of a situation where a child is born into a lower and lower-middle class family where not all people know English language except two or three members. Despite the fact,…

In 2017, I visited the West for the first time to pursue my masters. I was welcomed by so many cultural differences in the West, but thanks to my anthropological courses during undergraduate and my innate ability to observe social behavior…

“When we were colonial subjects, we could dream of freedom, but now that we were free, what would we dream of? Were we even free?” Said Sadat Hassan Manto, an Urdu short story writer who loved his country, however poor and ignorant. Art is,…

In many cultures around the world newborn babies are swaddled to help them settle and fall asleep. Parents are in need to be warned about the risks and after effects of wrapping their little ones too tight. Although the popular…

A few days earlier, a very dear colleague of mine disclosed the issue with me that how she was rejected by a guy's family on the plea that she is not that much tall. She told it all between a burst of tears rolling over her cheeks that how…

The Pakistan population in 1947 was 34.4 million which has increased to 207.800 million according to the provisional figures of the 2017 census. Amidst intense political wrangling and a show of national indignation over International…