What makes the revival of Pakistani cinema an uphill task The construction of new screens prompted investors to finally see hope for recovering investment from films
What Tipu Sultan’s analysis of his own dreams tell us about the misunderstood ruler The King of Mysore kept a book in which he recorded and analysed his dreams
How Mashal Khan became Herald's Person of the Year 2017 The Herald went to more than 36 districts across Pakistan to ask the public to choose from 10 nominees
How to make a television play in Pakistan Even today, hundreds of serials produced appear to consist of the same cast, based on the same story
The lives and times of Kashmir’s women scientists According to one scientist, being a woman adds to the misery of working in Jammu and Kashmir
Raza Khan: The vanishing act Where do these men and women go when they go missing? Their abductors have never been identified
How to win the 2018 elections If television channels dare to show anything against you, threaten them with a few choice words
How Kashmir's senior citizens are battling the Public Safety Act PSA empowers law enforcement agencies to detain people without trial for a period of three months
On the mysterious deportations of Turkish teachers Reports started circulating that Turkish police came to Pakistan and took them back on a chartered plane
Dancing on the battlefield: The first Indian unit at Dunkirk The journey that took Major General Muhammad Akbar Khan and his men from British India to Dunkirk during World War II
Green line blues: Delays mar a major public transport project in Karachi The project’s estimated cost has increased from 16 billion rupees to 24.6 billion rupees
Why has Pakistan faltered? Tariq Khosa's book gives an insightful analysis on Pakistan's unfinished struggle against numerous forces of violence
Will the Fata merger and other related reforms ever become a reality? Despite assurances from Abbasi that the matter will be resolved in days and not months, there still exists uncertainty
Self-censorship seems to be the most pernicious form of censorship these days: Mohsin Hamid A candid conversation with the internationally acclaimed Pakistani novelist
Rupture and betrayal: Are Pak-US relations repairable? Donald Trump is as averse to diplomatic nuance as Barack Obama was inclined towards it
How important is the exchange rate of the rupee? The stability of the real exchange rate is more important than the stability of the market rate
It is like measles or love. It happens when it happens: Osama Siddique on writing fiction Author of ‘Snuffing Out the Moon’ speaks about the inspiration behind writing a novel that spans over 4,000 years
Will the revival of the Model Town incident create problems for the Sharifs? The ghosts of Model Town have come back to haunt Shehbaz Sharif, his family and the Punjab government
Those fighting for Muslim women’s rights must stop seeing them as hapless victims Why is marriage seen as an institution that provides economic security to Muslim women?
January 2018 This was originally published in the Herald's January 2018 issue. To read more subscribe to the Herald in print.
Jamil Naqsh Museum in Karachi is the antidote to antiquity Inaugurated last December, it comprises artworks from the artist’s personal collection
The animal in the human: Tagore, Rilke, Borges and the meaning of art Art or literature is a way of seeing, but a seeing that dismantles the essentialist tendencies of cultural knowledge
The various jihads of Mariam Abou Zahab After taking the side of the Bengalis in 1971, she became an active sympathiser of the Palestinian liberation struggle
How Pakistan is failing its child brides Flawed implementation of the law against child marriages is partly rooted in a hazily defined role for the police
Why a clean drinking water project in Punjab is going nowhere Punjab Saaf Pani Company is a non-profit corporate entity wholly owned by the government of Punjab
