Growing up in a post-colonial independent nation where English has become the medium of education in most schools has led to a common occurrence in our rapidly advancing, tech-savvy generation: the imposteristic feeling of an estrangement and lack of connection with our mother tongue, Urdu. This article comes from a place of both personal experience and a general look on how we as the youth … Continue reading Why is It Hard to Talk About ‘Feelings’ in Urdu?

Have you ever been scrolling listlessly through your Instagram feed and suddenly encountered Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Obama playing minecraft with each other? Or a horribly realistic video of Mr. Beast’s face on a toddler’s body? That’s Artificial Intelligence, more commonly abbreviated to AI. I cannot remember AI in 2022. All of sudden, in 2023, AI became something everyone had access to, a lesson … Continue reading The Dualistic Emergence of AI

I’m sure many of you have had that one Desi aunty tell you how so many ‘goray’ are now adopting certain ways of life that resemble those of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and his companions—or the ones that Islam has already taught us. (Spoiler Alert: she’s right.) There have been countless other Western and religious philosophies that have claimed to be the key to a … Continue reading On the Wise Habits of The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ