Physical health of mentally ill
“Our bodies are gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” — William Shakespeare READERS might find it surprising to know that people with mental illness live less long than…
“Our bodies are gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” — William Shakespeare READERS might find it surprising to know that people with mental illness live less long than…
THE Indian supreme court’s judgement last week effectively endorsed Prime Minister Modi’s dismemberment of Kashmir in 2019 and his dismantling of its special status guaranteed by the constitution. The verdict…
MAN is by nature a collector. What he collects and how he manages his collection depends on his personal commitment and style of working as well as the resources available…
ISRAELI filmmaker Nadav Lapid and all foreign members of the jury at the film festival in Goa have criticised The Kashmir Files in separate interviews. It was a propaganda film…
UNCONVINCING chants for the privatisation of bleeding SOEs are being raised in Islamabad. Presently, there are approximately 215 of them, of which 170 are commercial entities (with 475,000 employees), which…
IN the aftermath of the floods, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living in makeshift camps next to stagnant water. Outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases, skin infections, respiratory tract infections,…
THIS past week, President Arif Alvi, sole survivor of the tabdeeli government at the centre, said, “If [Imran] had asked me, I would have suggested not leaving the Assembly”. After…
A SENSE of ‘impending doom’, ‘exhaustion’, ‘fuzziness in the head’, a ‘semi-conscious state of sleep’, accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting and excruciating body pain, is how people who have survived…
EVERY day in Pakistan brings stories of violence against women. But some are particularly harrowing in their symbolism. The rape of a woman in Islamabad’s F-9 park has been the…
TWO instructive approaches are currently underway to rein in or dislodge autocratic governments in high-profile neighbourhoods. The first method can be glimpsed in the popular movement that has grown into…