The bitter truth is that Pakistanis avoid local films because they no longer see themselves in them. The simple, heartfelt ...

My research collaborators at Yale University and I tried to figure out why we like sad art when we hate experiencing sadness in real life. We pay good money to see depressing movies and listen to Sad ...

The neglect of the Urdu language in Pakistani society is deeply concerning and must be addressed before its decline becomes irreversible. Urdu is one of the most lyrical and culturally rich languages ...

What is loneliness and why do we feel it? Sophie and Neil discuss how feeling lonely can help us to survive ...

Picture this scenario: one day in the summer of 1968 you sit down and write an achingly heartfelt song inspired by the beauty of the Scottish Highlands and six months later you record a version whose ...

A firm favourite topic for Beatles obsessives to kick around during those long-into-the night deliberations is just which of their eleven (we don’t count Magical Mystery Tour or Yellow Submarine, okay ...

About 50 percent of people get chills when listening to music. Research shows that’s because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, encouraging dopamine to flood the striatum—a part ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

Rais Anis Sabri, a celebrated Sufi Qawwal, has released an Urdu rendition of Hazrat Amir Khusro's 13th-century Persian poem, ...

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Jackson County-based folksinger and songwriter Joe Persinger has released a new 10-track album entitled “Old Sad Songs.” Persinger hastened to explain that all the songs are not old or sad. “That’s ...