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16Mar

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Op-ed, Opinion, Uncategorized

A Golden Tragedy

By:Maarij Ali Tarar Cruising on the M2 motorway through the fertile tracts of central Punjab in winter, one is likely to see fields of green wheat stretching to the horizon. Come spring, these young green saplings will have matured into golden stalks, ready to deliver their fat grains into the calloused hands of the farmers. Of courses, it is also in spring, as farmers begin harvesting, that a farce on a grand scale begins to play out. This farce is the Punjab government’s wheat subsidy programme, a series of procurements and releases ostensibly to benefit the small farmer and poor urban consumer. In reality, however, each and every facet of this complex mechanism is designed to benefit large farmers...

9Mar

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Sports & Travel, Uncategorized

The Streets Must Not Forget

By:Ahmad bin Tahir Raheem Sterling’s legacy has been tarred. Robert Lewandowski is no longer a memorable figure for football fans. Does anyone even remember Lukaku’s heroics for Inter Milan before his move to Chelsea? Football suffers from the epidemic of recency bias. Football is a dynamic game. It changes roughly every 3 years with respect to its tactics, playstyle, and marketing strategies. While FC Barcelona’s tiki-taka might have been the peak of sporting tactics in 2011, Dortmund’s gegenpressing in 2013 overshadowed its influence on the sport. By extension, player archetypes changed very rapidly as well, with Didier Drogba’s false-9 quickly being replaced by Louis Suarez’s poaching skills. As the whirlwind of managerial dynamism transforms football, players sometimes ca...

Searching for the Global: Globalization and K-pop

7Mar

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Arts & Culture, Uncategorized

Searching for the Global: Globalization and K-pop

By:Saleha Sultan In 2023, “Gangam Style” by PSY hit 5 billion views on Youtube. 11 years ago the song was going viral, becoming the first youtube music video to hit 1 billion. While it charted on Billboard and held an impressive record on iTunes,testament to its popularity, few people at that time associated it with the global cultural phenomena that K-pop has become today. K-pop, starting off as only a sub-culture in South Korea, is distinguished by its catchy beats, almost perfectly synchronised choreographies, and more often than not lyrics that effortlessly transition blend Korean and English line to line. K-pop artists, called “idols”, have even gone on to put out songs in English alone in recent years, like the ‘viral hit’ “Cupid” by FIFTYFIFTY, an acknowledgment of their ...

Autopsying Ridley Scott’s Toothless Epic

18Feb

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Arts & Culture, Uncategorized

Autopsying Ridley Scott’s Toothless Epic

(Image Credit: Alamy) By: Muhammad Jalal Yousaf Tarar “I’m the first to admit when I make a mistake. I just never do,” says Napoleon (played by Joaquin Phoenix) when Arthur Wellesley informs him that the Congress of Vienna had decided to exile him to the island of St. Helena. These words were also probably spoken by Director Ridley Scott when asked about the film’s historical accuracy. Of course, films can never be history. In all fairness, ‘Napoleon’ had never claimed to substitute for history. Still, suggesting historians don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there is not only strange comment for a director who specializes in historical films to make but also slightly snobbish. Not to mention, it’s an awful take on Baudrillian historiography...

13Oct

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Editorial

Reflections on the NOP Summer

By: Iman Attique Over the summer months, as the majority of the LUMS student body took a respite from classes and their busy work schedules, the campus prepared to welcome aspiring high school students from all over the country. The LUMS National Outreach programme (NOP) Summer Coaching Session (SCS) returned to an in-person format after its last online run owing to the pandemic. The Programme was a culmination of a year-long outreach and shortlisting operation. Mr. Ibrahim Abro - a recruiting team member - broke down the process into three tests followed by interviews with the applicants. Comprising three weeks of rigorous academic and co-curricular activities - ranging from sports to drama shows - the Programme offered these students a thorough experience of being a part of the co...

20Aug

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Uncategorized

On Sexual Harassment and Well-Being

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31Mar

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E-Paper

Issue IX

23Oct

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E-Paper

Issue VIII

The Productivity Games: The New Summer Olympics

28Sep

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Op-ed, Opinion

The Productivity Games: The New Summer Olympics

By Rida ArifThe words ‘summer’ and ‘productivity’ should be oxymoronic, or at least they used to be when I didn’t know what the word ‘productive’ meant.If you close your eyes and think of summer, do you imagine a fluorescently lit office, Excel sheets, and the burning blue light from a work computer? Seemingly, that’s what our student body dreams of — a glowing resume is the ultimate oasis. At the end of my sophomore year, my aspirations for the next few blazing months were very simple: watch movies, go ‘up North’, and read. What I did not anticipate was the guilt that followed.I felt the achievements of my peers creeping up on me like goosebumps in the cold: sneaky and uncomfortable. Every refresh of my Twitter timeline birthed more tweets about new internships, interesting coworkers, and...

“There’s Chicken in my Daal!”: The Struggle of Being Vegetarian and Pescatarian On-Campus

19Sep

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Arts & Culture

“There’s Chicken in my Daal!”: The Struggle of Being Vegetarian and Pescatarian On-Campus

By Mahrukh Murad Dev Kumar ‘23, a rising junior at SDSB and a practicing Hindu, is a lacto-vegetarian* with a knack for staying cautiously optimistic. He shares, “When I moved to LUMS, I realised the cons of being vegetarian in Pakistan.” He quickly experienced his usual variety of vegetarian food options abundantly available in his hometown, Karachi, being swapped for daal and sabzi at PDC.According to Dev, “My main ethos of being a vegetarian is to be non-violent towards nature and mother earth. [In my religion] there is a concept of not fighting anyone for your own sake. Interestingly, the first misconception that I heard from my friends [about being vegetarian] is that 'it's in your religion' and 'you are bound to eat vegetarian food'. However, this is a myth. There is no restriction o...