Extreme Music
Underground Chaos
A track-by-track sampler of Pakistan's extreme metal underground — bands from the scene's early years, from Dusk to the ones time forgot.
Back to the Beginning
A first-person reckoning with how Pakistan's extreme-metal under-underground actually formed and the bands that were lost to time.
Nothing under these yet. The published reporting is in The Morgue.
- Nights in Hell The weird and the occult, written up after dark.
- Newsrooms How newsrooms are managed, and what it takes to get one to try something new.
- AI Putting AI to work inside companies and newsrooms, and where it falls short.
- Content How to build and run content teams that produce value, not horseshit.
- The Machine Room How organisations should be run, and the many ways they aren't.
The Morgue
Selected work published in mainstream media, and a few interviews where I'm on the other side of the questions.
- Pieces
- 21
- Publications
- 11
- Years
- 2011–2026
#GrabYourKeyboards: Inside Pakistan's hashtag mills
How coordinated networks of real accounts manufacture Pakistan's political Twitter trends.
Vinyl collectors: For the record
Scratch beneath the surface and a world of vinyl collectors emerges in Pakistan.
Punch With Pakistani Girls at a Karachi Boxing Club
Women's boxing is growing fast in Pakistan. Put on the gloves and go a round in 360.
Lost Tales
The stories behind Pakistan's cult classics from the 90s, built as a scrolling interactive.