In Summer 2017, three young engineering undergrads from Pakistan buckled-up for a trip up North — on their bikes! Little did they know, the journey was going to transform their lives forever. On their way back from the 2-week nomadic adventures amidst mountains, the trio came across a tourist family…

Dear Yuri, It’s a spring night in Pakistan, as I sit in my courtyard, admiring the dark sky freckled with bright stars. I have spent most of my teenage and all of my early 20s in dorms across Pakistan, and no matter how much the townsfolk belittle the city, this…

Ever since I watched Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par, a part of me always craved for an opportunity to help a kid identify his potential. I’d look for an Ishaan in my family and even in juniors, but in case it isn’t obvious, I never found one. Why? …

I am making my way out of my WhatsApp inbox, flooded with messages, resisting the urge to strangle her, but my hands wouldn’t have reached her quarantined home 245 km away, anyway. It’s like being pushed into an infinite loop by a programmer who deliberately wants to burn his RAM…

I grew up hearing stories about the heavenly food at Peshawar’s Namak Mandi, so when I first visited the place back in 2017, I couldn’t hold my excitement. Namak Mandi had a serene aura about it, from that smell worth-swooning-over, and sputtering of lamb-karahis along the roadside, to the vip…

How do you turn a busy but unproductive day into something you’ll be proud of? You go out there and learn something new. And so, I log on to Amal’s Teachable Channel, and resume watching videos from the previous week (Procrastination Diaries). …

Shackled by petrifying deadlines, I found myself suffocated, reaching out for air, like Jon Snow did in the Battle of the Bastards. I had so much to take care of, yet my procrastinator-self would knock down my brain’s endeavours to get me back on track, every single time. As you…

The roller-coaster of life seems like an ongoing ride, and in the heat of the moment, we miss out on small things. But it’s only when we slow down, we realise the impact created by these seemingly insignificant things. Doing a series of random acts for Amal Academy’s Project Work…