We are all in battle mode. Ask Donald Trump. Ask Masood Pezeshkian. Ask Leonardo DiCaprio. And ask Pakistanis braving loitering munitions, rising prices and growing uncertainty engulfing every aspect of their lives.

War in the season of Oscars could well be a movie title itself. Today the Hollywood's best and the brightest gather in Los Angeles for the 98th Oscar award ceremony, taking place under the shadow of a Trump/Netanyahu imposed war on Iran whose script has gone awry.

As Sinners fights One Battle After Another for the best picture Oscar, never before have titles of the two leading contender films more reflected roles being played by American and Israeli leaders on the geo-political screen. Life often imitates art in the most grotesque manner.

Life has also acquired the nasty habit of throwing informational curve balls on our digital timelines. With the Gulf war dominating global and local news cycles at the expense of literally every other issue (including our very own war), the insatiable appetite for information is growing by the minute. To satiate this craving – and make money via audience engagement – content generators have gone into overdrive to disseminate content regardless of how much it weighs on the Truth-o-Meter.

It is such a struggle; this stress-inducing losing battle to make sense of the ballooning chaos around us. In a world seemingly spinning out of control, how does one excavate sense from a growing reservoir of senselessness? Those familiar support structures we all used to depend on,........

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