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Continue reading →: A Travelling Film Festival That’s Changing How Pakistan Sees Its StoriesMost film festivals arrive, dazzle, and disappear. The ‘Chalta Phirta Documentary Festival’ does the opposite. It moves. This winter, the Documentary Association of Pakistan (DAP) returns with the fourth edition of its travelling documentary film festival, taking powerful, urgent non-fiction cinema across Karachi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Islamabad, and Quetta from December…
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Continue reading →: They Cut The Tree That Raised LahoreIn October last year, a 150-year-old banyan tree in Lahore Cantt was chopped down, a living witness to our childhoods. It survived decades of change, chaos, and smog…but it couldn’t survive indifference. More than a tree was lost that morning, and with it went a piece of the city’s memory,…
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Continue reading →: Meet The Pakistani Founder From Lahore Who Refused Fast Fashion…And Made It WorkZein Ahmed’s relationship with fashion has never been about novelty. It has always been about memory. Long before sustainability became an industry mandate, her understanding of clothing was shaped by a quieter, more enduring logic—one learned at home, in Lahore, where objects were valued for how they were made, not…
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Continue reading →: What Being A TEDxLahore Curator Taught Me That No Classroom Ever CouldBy Irteza Ubaid If I draw a straight line through the most formative moments of my adult life, an unexpected number of them lead back to one place: a red circle, a community of volunteers, and a shared belief that ideas, when handled with care, can genuinely move people. That’s…
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Continue reading →: The Female Farmer Who’s Changing How Pakistan Thinks About FoodIt takes immense courage to walk away from societal expectations and instead, journey down a different path. In 2020, after falling gravely ill during Covid, Fatima Zaka, had an awakening. Sitting in her hospital bed, the youngest patient in the ICU ward of a private hospital, Fatima had an acute…
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Continue reading →: Lahore’s Beloved Afghan Jeweller Forced To Leave Pakistan After 4 DecadesThere are numbers, and then there are stories. Real families behind those numbers. And this week, one such story unfolded in a way that makes the heart sink: Muhammad Sadiq (also known as Khan Sb), the Afghan jeweller whose little shop in Liberty Market has been a treasure trove for…
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