The summer heat is reason enough not to step outside the confines of your room. And what better way is there to spend your time this summer than to get some reading done. We, at Siddysays, picked 3 books...
‘3 Bahadur’, Pakistan’s first animated feature film. It’s hard to describe Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy in one word but if I had to I would go with ‘daring’. Sharmeen started writing for newspapers such as The News and Dawn...
Admittedly I have a problem - I am a hoarder of bags. It doesn’t matter how many I already own, I have an itch that I can’t scratch until I impulsively purchase a bag. My top three bags...
The news of Sabeen Mahmud’s murder in cold blood shocked me. I don’t think I have felt this sensation of helplessness in a very long time. We, Pakistanis have become desensitized to murder. We hear of bomb attacks,...
‘Tradition is the continuity through which we know ourselves’- Iram Zia Raja. Iram Zia Raja is a renowned name in design. She has been a professor of design for the past 23 years and has been heading the...
“ We need an infusion of new talent in the fashion industry all the time because fashion is about what’s next”- Kamiar Rokni. Khadija Bano met Kamiar Rokni, the Creative Director at The House of Kamiar Rokni and a...
When I first heard of Ayyan’s arrest, it was not in the context of her laundering money instead the person narrating the incident told me of her diva behavior- how she refused to eat the food served in...
Bilal Mukhtar is the elusive entity whose name is attached to events ranging from lawn launches to movie premieres. Having had moved to Lahore from Faisalabad to study for his undergraduate degree, he made Lahore his own. Bilal,...
Mashkoor Raza is one of Pakistan’s most prominent painters and calligraphers- not just because he has been painting since 1972, but also because his work has established him as a global artist. Over a span of thirty years,...
Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rehman: ‘The only way to fight poverty is through Education’. I first met Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rehman two years ago on a chance encounter, where I dropped by her place with a friend who was working for her. Being...