The Sanniah Experience (TSE)

©The Sanniah Experience! (TSE) Exploring marriages from interracial to interfaith in the rom-com diaspora of the modern-day British-Pakistani identity. Jemima Khan’s massively promoted 2022 British rom-com directed by Shekhar Kapur, What’s Love Got to Do it? stars Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Aly, and many others with a surprise cameo of Pakistan’s beloved musical genius, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Dealing with issues of arranged marriage in the modern age coining the term ‘Love Contractually’, the movie has a promising start and a hopeful future preaching to the youth to stop pretending in unhappy or ‘insisted marriages’ as the male lead portrayed by Shazad Latif says to his parents. On the surface, the film deals with protagonist Kazim Khan’s journey from deciding to look for a bride to actually marrying a young Pakistani Muslim girl with whom he shares a sense of compatibility. ©The Sanniah Experience! (TSE) What’s Love Got to Do it? starts with British-

©The Sanniah Experience! (TSE) By Sanniah Hassan Maintaining good mental and physical health is a substantial part of optimal healthcare, access to which should be an essential concern of those in power, and although, a system to ensure the provision of basic amenities should be at the helm of any good governance, it usually is not.  There can be various reasons behind this, but most commonly this is determined by the GDP and HDI of any developing country. For countries like ours, generally considered to be "least" developed, decisions such as healthcare are predominantly made on the basis of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and the Human Development Index (HDI). However, this is a step that can only be taken when the state leadership is focused on progress in the right direction. Although Pakistan is not among the "least" developed countries according to the World Population Review website , yet, we too are lacking a potent system to sustain facilities f