Siham Basir

Jan 17, 2025 | images.dawn.com | Siham Basir

At this point, I feel like I’ve tried (almost) all the granola available in Karachi. What makes me such an expert on it, you may ask? Nothing at all other than I like to eat it. My latest discovery — Nibl’s Chocolate, Fruit & Nut Granola. Our friends at Nibl sent us some of their chocolate granola and their peanut butter and jelly granola, and since I’ve never really been a fan of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I decided to try the chocolate one first.

Nov 8, 2024 | images.dawn.com | Siham Basir

I have discovered a breakfast game-changer — Nutrilov’s revamped crunchy cereal, specifically the Chocolate Chip Vanilla one. I’ve had Nutrilov’s cereal cups before, and they were fine. Not amazing, not terrible — just serviceable, in my opinion. But they seem to have recently undergone a revamp and now I’m hooked. In its earlier products, Nutrilov had a pink cup of berry flavoured cereal and a blue cup heavily featuring coconut. While both were fine, they didn’t blow me away.

Nov 2, 2024 | images.dawn.com | Siham Basir

In its fourth cycle, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Patakha Pictures fellowship programme produced films even more dazzling than the stars in the audience watching them. SOC Films held a screening of the trailers of five films produced by its Her Earth Advocates fellows — 10 female filmmakers from across Pakistan who created films on climate change and the way it’s impacting Pakistanis — and a chance to meet the filmmakers.

Oct 12, 2024 | images.dawn.com | Siham Basir

In honour of South Korean author Han Kang winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, we’ve compiled a list of three of her books for you to read. A note on Han Kang’s works — I don’t believe they’re meant to be taken entirely literally. Her books may seem strange to some, but are, ultimately, a commentary on society in general. From The Vegetarian’s dark take on humanity to The White Book’s exploration of grief, her books are poetic and a little disturbing but definitely thought-provoking.

Sep 20, 2024 | images.dawn.com | Siham Basir

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a very interesting looking box in my freezer — frozen vegetable dumplings from Dimplin, a local company with some very cute packaging. The box was pale blue with a picture of some very tasty looking dumplings on it. We went through the whole box, and I reordered them from Dimplin’s own — the first box was purchased from Springs. Alas, ordering them made me realise that I am quite a fool.