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A practical chicken karahi for home cooks, built around browning chicken, cooking tomatoes down properly and finishing with ginger, chilli and coriander rather than turning the pan into gravy.
Hassan Raza · 27 Oct 2026
Nihari rewards patience more than complexity. This home guide focuses on browning, slow tenderness, lump-free flour thickening and the ginger-lemon garnish that keeps a rich bowl alive.
Hassan Raza · 6 Oct 2026
Good chana chaat is a balance of chickpeas, sourness, heat, sweetness and fresh crunch. Keep wet chutneys separate until serving so the bowl does not collapse into softness.
Hassan Raza · 5 Oct 2026
On polluted days in Lahore and other cities, the useful fitness skill is knowing when to change the route, time or session. AQI is a decision aid, not a badge of toughness.
Sara Malik · 5 Oct 2026
A home bun kebab needs a thin spiced patty, sharp green chutney, soft bun and enough griddle heat to toast the bread against the filling without turning it into a burger.
Hassan Raza · 3 Oct 2026
What cricket nets teach about timing, decisions, and safety that gym mirrors cannot—and how to use both rooms without confusing them.
Imran Sheikh · 31 Aug 2026
An essay on care that already exists in Pakistani life—prayer, walking, sleep, food, boundaries with phones—without buying a new vocabulary of wellness products.
Sara Malik · 13 Aug 2026
Sunscreen that exists in this market, a cleanser that does not strip, and the end of treating fairness as a product category we will play along with.
Nadia Shah · 10 Aug 2026
Not the launch party: how to recognise Karachi and Lahore restaurants built for return visits—light, repetition, calm bills.
Hassan Raza · 4 Aug 2026
Kadak, doodh patti and cutting tea: how to order and brew Karachi chai without treating leaf quality as a brand personality.
Hassan Raza · 28 Jul 2026
Celebrity feeds leak onto Zamzama. What copies is a white kurta and restraint. What does not is a red-carpet co-ord on a bike.
Ayesha Khan · 28 Jul 2026
An advisory-first reading of the Makran coast road: FCDO restrictions on Balochistan travel, what the highway means as lived geography, and why corridor talking points are not a guest’s script.
Mehreen Ali · 26 Jul 2026
A household iftar system: dates, a jug, limited fry nights, fruit chaat, batch protein, and a rest roster for whoever cooks.
Hassan Raza · 22 Jul 2026
Fashion week is theatre and research: how to tell which Pakistani runway looks can walk a real street—and which only live on a phone.
Ayesha Khan · 21 Jul 2026
How household Tapal, office Lipton, a tapri boil, a hotel pot, and Peshawar qehwa differ—and how to order each without flattening them into one brown liquid.
Hassan Raza · 15 Jul 2026
Abayas, long shirts and covered hair as everyday engineering: opacity, heat, commute and prayer—not a seasonal hashtag.
Ayesha Khan · 15 Jul 2026
Design for the Friday night arrival: working AC, towels in rotation, a bed that is not storage—and honesty when the only bed is a sofa.
Rabia Kamal · 26 Jun 2026
A drama that trusts silence, a gallery night in Lahore, and the pop song that has been living in every car since March.
Bilal Ahmed · 20 Jun 2026