Choose to be free on April 1, 2021“All my class fellows are well settled. Every other day, someone is throwing a birthday party or another one is getting married, but they usually do not invite me to birthday parties and weddings. Interestingly, I am quite ok with it and happy as well because I know who I am, where I am going, […]
Choose to be Free on December 9, 2020“All my class fellows are well settled. Every other day, someone is throwing a birthday party or another one is getting married, but they usually do not invite me to birthday parties and weddings. Interestingly, I am quite ok with it and happy as well because I know who I am, where I am going, […]
Better late than never on August 21, 2020While answering Herbert Spencer’s question: which education is of most worth? Will Durant in his book “Fallen Leaves” emphasizes that a good education opens to the body and the soul, to the citizen and the state, the fullest possibilities of their harmonious life by following three purposes: (i) To control life through health, character, intelligence, […]
Change your story, change your life on February 15, 2020When Steve Jobs entered his office on his first day at Apple, he saw a shelf beautifully decorated with different electronic gadgets. He asked his assistant about the things on the shelf. The assistant replied that it was the rare collection of the most innovative products that Apple had produced so far. Jobs said: “My […]
University of success on February 9, 2020“I am convinced that life is just a game, here on Earth, a game where no one need to be a loser, no matter what his plight or condition may be. I believe that everyone can enjoy the fruits of victory but I am equally as certain that, like all other games, one cannot participate […]
University of success on January 17, 2020“I am convinced that life is just a game, here on Earth, a game where no one need to be a loser, no matter what his plight or condition may be. I believe that everyone can enjoy the fruits of victory but I am equally as certain that, like all other games, one cannot participate […]
Disempowering higher education on June 24, 2019Pat Moynihan, who was a longtime faculty member at Harvard, a distinguished public servant, a United States Senator said: “If you want to build a great city, first build a great university and then wait a few hundred years.” Higher education sector in Pakistan is facing unprecedented levels of public as well as industrial mistrust […]
Before it becomes sound & fury on January 24, 2019Alvin Toffler’s observation that “the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”. It captures perfectly the challenges faced by Pakistanis everywhere in the fields of education, specific job skills and the culture of workplace learning and training. I was on […]
A meaningful life on November 29, 2017I am not ashamed to admit that I am afraid of future. Today the world is changing faster than ever. We have climate change and population growth, injustice, terrorism and illiteracy. Today I request that all readers Audrey Hepburn once said that as you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands. One […]
ILF ends with powerful tribute to Mashal Khan on April 25, 2017The Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF-2017) ended with memorable tribute to Mashal Khan. A resolution condemning the lynching of the Mardan university student was also passed. “The publically lynched body of Mashal should not be buried, it must stay alive in our thoughts, words, pens, books and speeches as a sign of never ending protest against […]