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A practical guide to ramadan hosting etiquette when your guests fast differently, with specific advice on iftar timing, prayer, food, children, medical exemptio
Bilal Ahmed · 13 Sep 2026 · 15 min
A practical guide to short ramadan home workouts for maintaining strength, with specific advice on session timing, reduced volume, exercise selection, effort, h
Sara Malik · 13 Sep 2026 · 15 min
A practical guide to ramadan freezer prep what freezes well and what does not, with specific advice on samosas, kebabs, parathas, curry bases, rice, yoghurt sau
Hassan Raza · 13 Sep 2026 · 16 min
What to buy once when you are fasting in a US city without a family kitchen already stocked for sehri and iftar.
Mehreen Ali · 5 Sep 2026 · 2 min
A sustainable Ramadan lifting plan: one training window, less volume, familiar lifts, overnight fueling, and a calm return after Eid—not ordinary-month PRs.
Sara Malik · 3 Sep 2026 · 7 min
A flexible Ramadan food plan designed around hydration, nourishment and shared labour.
Hassan Raza · 19 Jul 2026 · 2 min
A Ramadan pakora guide that begins with the batter bowl and ends with the cook sitting down for iftar.
Hassan Raza · 12 Jul 2026 · 2 min
Sleep, rest days, and the Tuesday you skip on purpose — the half of training Pakistani gyms will not sell because it does not photograph. Ice is not a personality. Heat is a tax.
Sara Malik · 7 Apr 2026 · 6 min
Dates, Rooh Afza, pakora oil, fruit chaat — who actually cooks the month, and why the television kitchen is not a household.
Hassan Raza · 6 Apr 2026 · 5 min
The same chicken karahi, three packets. Salt, colour, and the timid stew problem — plus when to skip the box and fry your own.
Hassan Raza · 1 Apr 2026 · 5 min
Office, mosque, dinner: the modest weekday is a cut problem, not a campaign. J., Bareeze, and Khaadi pret, measured in daylight and on a bike.
Ayesha Khan · 28 Mar 2026 · 5 min
Pakistani desserts returned to their proper scale: passed around, argued over and eaten while still themselves.
Hassan Raza · 3 Mar 2026 · 2 min
A kitchen-table account of Ramadan food after the first pakora photograph and before the next ordinary suhoor.
Hassan Raza · 26 Feb 2026 · 2 min
Same dish, five houses, five textures. We cooked along — Hyderabadi, Punjabi, a Karachi hotel, a North Nazimabad grandmother, and a weeknight cheat — to find the method that holds.
Hassan Raza · 25 Feb 2026 · 6 min
Contemporary qawwali after Nusrat is not a field of lesser copies. Hereditary parties, women performers, shrine traditions, concert stages and digital production continue to reshape the form.
Bilal Ahmed · 14 Feb 2026 · 3 min
Salman Toor paints friendship, desire and unease inside rooms glowing green, where intimacy can feel protected from the street and exposed to the viewer at once.
Bilal Ahmed · 6 Feb 2026 · 3 min
The right Pakistani restaurant in London depends on the occasion: a five-minute seekh roll, a family karahi, regional breakfast or a dining room where conversation can last.
Hassan Raza · 25 Jan 2026 · 3 min
British Pakistani business is not one restaurant street or wedding economy. The useful directory connects founders to what they actually built and tells readers how to verify the relationship.
Bilal Ahmed · 23 Jan 2026 · 3 min