We hear you Pakistan! Hair is an essential part of our identity, but we don’t get much time to follow a strict hair care regimen. As a professional, irrespective of the gender, we face difficulty in maintaining work-life balance. So, when it comes to hair-care, we want something that requires low maintenance and gives quick results. But the question is, how to squeeze time for hair-care with a busy schedule? Managing one’s hair routine is especially difficult in countries like Pakistan, where

As soon as we learn the language, we realize that the world is divided into binary opposites- without knowing one, the other does not exist. Such as we understand what darkness is by the idea of light; we learn what is evil by the absence of goodness, and we taste happiness after going through a phase of sadness. Similarly, problems and solutions are a common dichotomy. We know, no problem exists without its solution. As social entrepreneurs say, to be able to provide a better solution, one mus

When the pandemic hit, the world witnessed the bizarre nature of people. The uncertain and wavering lifestyles uplifted curtains and let us peeked into the world of creatures fighting on petty things who thought of no one but themselves: stockpiling tissue papers, hoarding facial masks, storing all the available hand sanitizers and medicines, to selling plasma… Pakistanis were swift to adopt changes and embraced all the challenges the pandemic threw at it compared to many other hardcore countri

Imagine you are running out of time, and it’s the end of a long day, you cannot travel to a faraway place to get the grocery product of your choice or get it delivered to someone close to you, this is where grocery home delivery services rescue your day! But wait, is this the only benefit an online grocery store offers to you? If you think yes, my fellow reader, I doubt you may not know about grocery shopping. But no worries, I have compiled a comprehensive list to describe how online grocery

The concept of indoor shopping area was alien to Pakistanis when mega malls and superstores were not built. Customers selecting and buying the products of their choice, and walking down the aisle to pick items from the shelf was a luxury of the privileged ones. Before the elite idea of shopping people used to buy groceries from Kiryana Stores. You may still find those stores in your locality with the name “Parchun ki Dukan” or “General Store” if you look around. Traditionally, and in an open mar

Something is wrong about these sentences. Can you point them out? If you took more than two minutes to find out the mistakes then this blog post is for you! The rest? Follow me to avoid future mistakes On a daily basis, students make numerous grammatical mistakes in their writings –article, fragments, tenses, unnecessary passive sentences, etc, — but the most contagious of all is the Subject/Verb Agreement mistakes in their English paper which causes them to lose their marks. Everywhere ar

Home: The basic necessity for every living being; the place of love and comfort; the place of growing up and experiencing every small to big realities of life. But what if one has to leave home for studies and need to relocate in another city for pursuing higher education? This relocation happens a lot in the Chartered Accountancy field, which is one of the prestigious disciplines that let its candidates explore the professional world. It nourishes a student to grow in the corporate sector whil

In today’s world when the word “CA” comes with a person’s name it gives an impression that he or she has acquired the highest level of academic and professional competence. It leaves a lasting impression if someone says ‘’I am doing CA’’ but how many actually get to say, “I have done CA” is a big question. It is assumed that Chartered Accountants live a life of luxury and comfort. However, students are never told how much input and hard work is required to achieve that lavish lifestyle. Also, s

From the earliest stone tools of human history to modern ages’ gadgets we have seen a tremendous shift in technology. From craving on the stones to the network of devices which store, transmit and exchange information; the technological progress is incredible. After all, change is the only constant of our lives be it the smallest particle of the world or the contemporary times we live in. We have now entered into the dramatic era of continuous flux. This is the era of information and disruption

5 reasons why “RATTA-FICATION” is destroying our learning ability. Over the past 50 years, we have witnessed many changes in our education sector of Pakistan. During this period, we have also observed the evolution of different educational boards. However, there is a problem in our education system that remains unchanged. The issue that has become a part of our education is called “THE ROTE LEARNING” or “THE RATTA-FICATION” as it is known by students all across Pakistan. The Rote learning is

“I can’t even tell my husband about this incident because he would laugh at my stupidity,” she said in a sombre tone. Last night, while on a bus, I smiled at an old lady whom I had caught looking intently at me earlier on. She gazed at me for a while and returned the smile,After a while, the old lady tried to break the ice by asking me where I had come from and where I was headed. I told her my locality, to which she remarked that that was her stop as well, and she lives only two blocks away fr