Bibi Ansari

Girls just wanna have pungas with patriarchy

[Bibi Ansari @curlyintentions]

@hiyavyas_

[Sophia Ahmed @sophiaahmed]

Rickshaw Fundraiser

Shayan, 18 yrs Thalassemia Major patient (registered with Faith Pakistan)

His father works as security guard with limited monthly salary.

Shayan’s father has requested a rickshaw.

Cost
250-400k

Zakat accepted
Pls repost

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Walk in the park, 1989 by Laila Shawa, Palestinian artist (1940-2022) who often explored womens roles and identitiesin culture #WomensArt

[Saman Tariq @stariq88]

Patriarchal societies always find a way to blame women. For unhappy marriage, divorce, sexual harassment, rape or even murder. It will always be about something she did, something she wore and something she said. Always! Nothing new here but it breaks something in me every time.

[charpoop @charvvvvi]

the kiss by gustav klimt as an inspiration for my rangoli this year~

[Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura]

Your Diwali sweets might be wearing precious metal. ✨

That shimmering layer on many Indian sweets is called chandi ka warq, an edible, flavorless silver foil traditionally made by skilled artisans who hammer silver into incredibly thin sheets.

You'll often find it decorating treats like barfi, badam ki jali, and qubani ka meetha. The art of adorning food with warq flourished in the elaborate cuisines of the Mughal courts, and it remains a festive favorite today.

But there's a catch. Machine-made alternatives have made traditional hand-crafted warq less common, and some imitation products are actually made from aluminum foil.

This Diwali, take a closer look at what's making those sweets sparkle. ✨ Discover the story of edible silver at the link: https://t.co/kUuREOSbnR

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Apple’s new Diwali film (Step Into the Light) is visually stunning. But there’s something oddly outside-in about it, despite Juhi Chawla.

The ingredients are beautifully Indian... Raw Mango textiles, Tijara Fort, a 90s Bollywood song. The gaze *feels* international. It celebrates the appearance of India without quite capturing the experience of being Indian. It plays more like a luxury fashion film than a Diwali ad rooted in how the festival is actually lived.

Diwali isn’t just an aesthetically pleasing celebration of light. It’s family, rituals, food, noise, neighborhoods, memories, and many small human moments. The film captures India’s visual vocabulary beautifully (which makes sense for a camera demo), but it’s far less interested in its emotional texture.

The contrast with Apple’s Chinese New Year films is striking. 'Three Minutes' (2018), 'Daughter' (2020), 'The Comeback' (2022), 'Little Garlic' (2024) and 'I Made a Mixtape for You' (2025) are built around recognizably Chinese people... relationships, family dynamics, inter-generational tension, etc. The festival isn’t a backdrop, but woven into the story. The iPhone is shown off through the storytelling, not the other way around.

'Mixtape' is the telling illustration. It has the same ingredients as this Diwali film - 90s songs, dance, nostalgia. But they’re built around a young man dodging his family’s marriage questions on his way home for the New Year. Same toolkit, totally opposite result!!

And it isn’t about who’s behind the camera. Several of the China films were directed by Westerners; the Diwali film was directed by an Indian. The gaze probably comes from the brief.

So, China gets 15–20-minute short films. India gets an Instagram reel. YOu could argue that market size explains part of that. But still doesn't explain the difference in curiosity (or the lack of it).

Apple’s Chinese films are interested in what it feels like to be Chinese.
Apple's Indian films are interested in what India looks like, as seen from the outside.

P.S. The song, 'Roop Suhana Lagta Hai', is credited to Anu Malik, but it’s A R Rahman’s uncredited 'Ottagathai Kattiko' from the Tamil original.

#advertising #marketing #deepavali #diwali

[Latif Baloch @BalochLatif]

My 22 year old nephew, Abdullah, a student, was forcibly abducted from Khuzdar on November 4, 2026, at 6:30 PM by armed men in plain clothes. They took him away in a white Surf. His whereabouts remain unknown.
#ReleaseAbdullahBaloch
@SabihaBaloch_ @francescam63 @FrontLineHRD

[Shahzadi Rai @ShahzadiRai]

Sindh Government to Offer Higher Education Scholarships to Transgender Students https://t.co/V1uf9IhDSi

[Ziauddin Yousafzai @ZiauddinY]

Day 1872: 🏫 Girls barred from secondary schools.

Day 1412: 🎓 Women barred from universities.
🇦🇫
An uneducated girl today risks becoming a silenced woman tomorrow. Denying Afghan girls education is denying them the knowledge, confidence and power to speak for themselves.

#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#ACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[International Human Rights Foundation @IHRF_English]

Pakistan: elected KP chief minister Sohail Afridi has been missing since governor's rule on 11 Oct. The Peshawar High Court has sent petitions on him and other PTI lawmakers to a larger bench. Hiding them is enforced disappearance. Free them. #HumanRights https://t.co/08wz7YdqX2

[AmnestyCanada @AmnestyNow]

Human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha deserve justice.

They underwent an unfair trial for this fearless human rights work. Authorities must immediately release Imaan and Hadi and drop all charges against them.

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

Imaan and Hadi have NOT been granted bail in the road barrier case from October 2024. They were granted bail in the March 2025 FIR they were re-arrested in, which is not the one they were sentenced to ten years for. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[⁧Aurat March Lahore @AuratMarch]

The detention of Imran Khan’s sisters is nothing short of political victimisation. We’re disgusted, but not shocked, that the authorities continue to keep women simply advocating to meet their brother under preventive detention through regressive laws such as the MPO.

[Sophia Ahmed @sophiaahmed]

Have requests of handpumps from two villages more in Badin, verified by @KolhiLeelaRam

Zakat accepted 14-18 households

If any wants to give in full or contribute partially

Thank you

[Pari is a weirdo @laukipari]

To blame feminism for men's unhappiness is to admit that men's happiness depended on the continued oppression on women

[SurTaal Music Academy Lahore @surtaalacademy]

RDB Paaji Welcome To SurTaal
#surtaal #surtaalkidsband #foryou #fyp

[✒️ @Literariium]

— Anne Sexton

[Daily Dose of Art @aDose_of_Art]

Beware the Beautiful Witch, 1913,
by Power O'Malley (Irish, 1870-1946).

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

#ReleaseImaanAndHadi