Aminah W. Chaudhry Wherever there is brutality, there is resistance and wherever there is resistance there is art. Art has always been a strong expression by human beings, and I believe the world has always seen great events covered by…
Myra Farooq Racism existed in societies long before modern societies were developed and territories were defined. It started when people lived in clans and tribes. Foreigners (strangers) coming from tribes or lands, speaking different languages with different cultural norms and…
Hania Khan On March 14, many experienced nothing short of an exodus when most students in the major academic centres of Pakistan – Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad – were asked to evacuate from their hostels and flats and move back…
“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”
This week’s edition of The Students’ Herald is dedicated to those journalists who risk their lives in pursuit of the truth. We at The Students’ Herald recognise the unprecedented challenge facing journalists today; media workers across the country face gruelling pressures from not just…
Kumail Haider Jafri Late in the night, Eqbal Ahmad made his way to the podium in a University of Massachusetts’ auditorium in 1975 to a rather tired crowd. He left the stage as an electrified crowd cheered him on to…
For a long time, films were analysed in a one-dimensional way. Many critics conveniently brush this form of art under the umbrella of “storytelling” – and this notion itself was pretty exclusionary and naïve. Throughout the history of cinema, many…