Coronavirus and the changing dynamics of social spaces in Pakistan By: Zulfiqar Ali and Fahd Zulfiqar on March 23, 2020A few pertinent questions sprang up our minds when we received an email last week about the postponement of a local conference our paper had got accepted for. The conference was supposed to be held in mid-April this year. The reason, without any guess, is the global outbreak of deadly coronavirus. In order to minimize […]
The world and Coronavirus By: Mehr Tarar on March 22, 2020In 2020 it is one of the worst humanitarian crises of the world that grapples with man-made and natural tragedies of unimaginable proportions in many of its parts. The continuing effects of the five-year-old Yemen war are so huge their description doesn’t need any scary background music and images in slow-mo to encapsulate its inhuman […]
Before dying let’s confess By: Kaniz Fatima on March 18, 2020While writing this piece, I have no idea regarding my continued existence amidst the pandemic of corona and its virulent implications upon humanity. Readers may assume it as highly emotional and disappointing, however, before dying let us admit what we have achieved so far or what our future generations, those who survived, would remember and […]
Pakistan’s Political Horoscope By: Astrologer Muhammad Ali Zanjani on March 14, 2020In the horoscope of the nation, Aries lagna was rising. The lagna lord in the case of Pakistan is Mars which happens to be placed in the 3rd house and 2nd bhava. This placement suggests that rulers of Pakistan has strong determination and will power. However, placement of Mars in the same house has created […]
Education System and Education Philosophy: The Twins we miss in misery By: Muhammad Jahangir Kakar on March 13, 2020Is it the cause of politics alone which has effected into rendering us a bunch of reactionary people with the precipitous societal breakdown and eroding intellectual servitude or do we need to really look out for some other adversaries, too? The story of civilized and developed nations is not one scripted in solemn lines of […]
Why Aurat Marches are the Need of the Hour By: Vardah Shahjehan on March 10, 2020The ever-broached concept of feminism took a new turn with the onset of Aurat March in Pakistan, which gained the contentious status ever since it made the first piece of news in 2018. The collective of ‘Hum Auratien’, Aurat March refers to a well-thought-out and peaceful protests across the country whose cardinal motif was centered around […]
A frustated nation and its miseries By: Kaniz Fatima on March 10, 2020In the praise of idle man, Bertrand Russel rightly perceived how our society encourages modes of earning and discourages modes of consumption. Just have a birds’ eye view of our society, everybody is in struggle irrespective of class, gender or race; in the struggle of establishing his say, defining his sphere of influence and subjugating […]
How misogyny is creeping into our mainstream Media? By: Muhammad Ishaq Rasheed on March 10, 2020For quite some time now, the numbers of feminists have been increasing in our society. This was a positive development in the decade of horror and violence that our people went through. That’s why whenever some horrific or terrible thing happened to the Woman; the number of sane voices supporting the victim kept rising. It […]
Education is the First Step By: Fatima Imran Rao on March 7, 2020Education, unambiguously, is the first and ultimate step towards success. The literacy rate of every developed country is substantially high which attests, for development, education is not a choice it is a need. Other attributes such as industrialization and technology advancement are equally indispensable for development but the high literacy rate is the key step. […]
When the Artist Unravels: A Nietzschen Commentary By: Komayal Hassan on March 4, 2020Introspection in life, when coupled with a neurosis gained from a difficult, at times, confusing, childhood, renders its wielder with a melancholy and altogether antisocial disposition. When left uninterrupted for long, and immersed in with a kind of narcissistic glee (later likened to be the ruinous ‘fairy dust’ that ultimately sets one apart from the […]