Mashable Pakistan Lab23 Jan 2021

Episode 13: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Saba Karim Khan

Saba Karim Khan is an author, award winning filmmaker and educator, whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Wasafiri, Huff Post, EN Fuego, Verso, DAWN, Express Tribune, Think Progress.

She has read Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and works at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her doc-film, Concrete Dreams: Some Roads Lead Home is now on Amazon Prime Video. Before joining the Academy, she worked as Country Marketing and Public Affairs Head at Citigroup. Born in Karachi, she now lives in Abu Dhabi with her husband and two daughters.

Skyfall is her debut novel published by Bloomsbury in December 2020. The blurb of the book reads:

Born in Heera Mandi, Lahore's famous red-light district, Rania is a tour guide by day and a classical singer by night. Despite the worst of humanity every day – her madrassa running father selling her mother's body and beating her sister – Rania remains the 'Troublemaker', unable to give up on her dreams.

When an Indian filmmaker encourages her to enroll in a music contest that can take her to New York, her dreams take flight. But even as she wins the hearts of her listeners, a family secret threatens to bring her life in Heera Mandi back in sharp relief, upending the new life she has built for herself.

From the oppressive walls of religious hypocrisy to the orange jumpsuits of American prisons, Skyfall is a tender, piercing debut that teaches us the strength of human endeavour and our desire for love in a time of hate.

Mashable Pakistan Lab talked to Saba about all the various hats she wears and the journey that resulted in Skyfall.

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Episode 30: Mashable Pakistan Lab – National Hepatitis C Hackathon 2021- Winners

An estimated 11 million people in Pakistan are suffering from Hepatitis C diseases and the number is increasing drastically every year. Moreover, Pakistan has the 2nd highest HCV prevalence in the wor...

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Episode 29: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Nutribiz 2021 Innovation Challenge - Winners

Pakistan has one of the highest malnutrition burdens in the world. The 2011 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) revealed that the country faces a complex triple burden of malnutrition, undernutrition, ove...

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Episode 28: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Shan-ul-Haq

The future of healthcare lies in working hand-to-hand with latest technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, among many others. Such technologies could help transform the entire h...

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Episode 27: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Umaid Wasim

In Pakistan unfortunately there is not a balanced distribution of resources when it comes to sports. As a result, except for cricketers, the players suffer as they for the most part have to fend for t...

28 Juli 202131min

Episode 26: Mashable Pakistan Lab - Sabdezar Irfan

For the majority of us the mention of graphic content means a story that revolves around super heroes. However, there are few trailblazers in who are telling all kinds of stories using the medium. One...

29 Juni 202126min

Episode 25: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Boltay Huroof

According to various studies conducted in Pakistan across the decade, it has been estimated that there are around 2 million people in the country who are visually impaired. Still, there are many visua...

26 Juni 202121min

Episode 24: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Beenisch Tahir

In 2017 UNDP Pakistan made a commitment to invest in innovative solutions for development. They accelerated their support in 2019 by launching UNDP Innovation-Accelerator Lab Pakistan. The Lab is fund...

21 Juni 202139min

Episode 23: Mashable Pakistan Lab – Aabshar

Water scarcity (also called water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water recourses to meet the fresh water demand. Millions of people around the world lack access to fresh water, which is ...

4 Juni 202129min