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Jan 16, 2025 | 
aurora.dawn.com | Zahrah Mazhar
“I will save time in research.”“But it will still need to be fact-checked, link to link, word by word.”“Give it the right prompts.”“Will that stop it from hallucinating though?”“How about we use it only to clean the language?”“Perhaps.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
images.dawn.com | Zahrah Mazhar
I have big feet and I cannot lieI want comfort (and am willing to pay for it)I believe kolapuris beat all other types (sneakers are a close second)Doodle Inc doesn’t only tick all three but also, true to its name, has very cool doodles on its shoes. This review will exclusively talk about their kolapuris (because point 3). I got my first pair as a gift from a friend who dared to get me shoes.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
images.dawn.com | Mashael Shah |Siham Basir |Zahrah Mazhar |Wara Irfan
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Rehana Alam |Zahrah Mazhar |Muzhira Amin |Muhammad Amir Rana
Lahore @ Partition — Violence, Cross-Migration, and Regeneration 1947-1961By Adnan TariqVanguard BooksISBN: 978-9-6940-2666-4256pp. How do people behave when they are faced with grave danger and insecurity? Do they become violent or do they try to escape? According to Adnan Tariq, author of Lahore @ Partition, it is to answer questions such as these that he has undertaken to write this book.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Omair Alavi |Zahrah Mazhar |Muzhira Amin |Muhammad Amir Rana
If You Would Have Told Me: A MemoirBy John Stamos, with Daphne YoungHenry Holt and Co.ISBN: 9-781-2508-9097-9352pp. Most people in Pakistan know him as the long-haired Uncle Jesse from the American sitcom Full House, but there is more to John Stamos than meets the eye. The actor never considered himself as another pretty Italian boy when he stepped into showbiz; in fact, he was flipping burgers at his dad’s fast food joint before becoming a household name in the 1980s.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Harris Khalique |Zahrah Mazhar |Muzhira Amin |Muhammad Amir Rana
In early 2007 in London, there was a sombre evening when Prof Amin Mughal and I met, a few months after my father’s passing in 2006 in Karachi. Mughal had moved to Lahore after my father had left but my father’s memoirs, published by Rahat Saeed in Irtiqa magazine, and then my father’s singular trip to London — when they would meet every day from morning until evening — had brought them closer.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
images.dawn.com | Zahrah Mazhar
It’s election month in Russia and the centre of Moscow is buzzing, but with all things fashion. You’d have to scour for any political messaging and even if you do, you won’t find any — neither in the city centre nor on the runways. “We all know what’s going to happen” comes the answer any time I ask someone from the city about the lack of election activity. Going from Pakistan, where we wrapped up our own predictable yet unpredictable elections last month, the answer hardly gives me any pause.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
images.dawn.com | Zahrah Mazhar
I’ve always had a fascination with letters or words in Arabic and Urdu; ironically, the former I can’t speak (apart from the basic conversational phrases) and the latter is weak compared to my English language skills. My appreciation for the letters came from a purely aesthetic perspective and for the words from their history, which I find richer than their equivalents in English.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
aurora.dawn.com | Zahrah Mazhar
What’s Wrong With Good News? “People are reading the Kohli-Shadab friendship story more than the one about the rising cost of our electricity bills,” noted a sub-editor, looking at the numbers on the screen. His surprise was understandable given that newsrooms all over the world (and for good reason) prioritise stories that impact their readers’ everyday lives. The core purpose of journalism is to inform, and make sure readers stay informed.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
images.dawn.com | Zahrah Mazhar
Going Loco for Local: Desi food poetry that will make you salivate 22 Sep, 2023 There’s no denying the absolute supremacy of Pakistani food but how does one pay an ode to the cuisine beyond using words like divine and incomparable? Simple, you borrow a few verses from Noor Ali’s “desi food poetry”.
