menu_open Columnists
Mashal Rizvi

Mashal Rizvi

Dawn Prism

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

‘Lutf ata hai’: Dr Arfa Sayeda Zehra’s living legacy

Dr Zehra’s insight captures a generation estranged from its mother tongue — it listens with pleasure but no longer writes or inhabits Urdu,...

13.11.2025 4

Dawn Prism

Mashal Rizvi

Return of the Ravi: Why Lahore is celebrating a reunion with the river even as it threatens to flood the city

A city built on memory met the river that shaped it — and found both beauty and danger in return.

08.09.2025 40

Dawn Prism

Mashal Rizvi

When justice didn’t blink: A rare moment of ‘Noor’ for women in Pakistan

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court verdict in the Noor Mukadam case, a glimmer of accountability emerges from the shadows of impunity.

22.05.2025 10

Dawn Prism

Mashal Rizvi