Consumer nation on February 26, 2017The highpoint of most people’s presence happens when they visit their family and friends in a brand new vehicle or when they invite them to their new house. Or when they buy a new gadget and show it off to their friends, colleagues or neighbors. Most of this show off is now made easy by […]
Smile Please! on February 23, 2017We are a very depressive nation; this shows in our interpersonal relations – we simply don’t smile to each other! Having lived in the UK for quite some time what I noticed immediately among them was this wonderful habit of smiling to friends and to strangers alike. Ladies and gentlemen walking on the streets will […]
Parental leave in academia & industry on February 22, 2017 I came to know about the “parental leave” when former British Prime Minister David Cameron availed it upon the birth of his youngest child while he was the prime minister. I told myself isn’t it so good that the British law respects the sentiments of the father as well whilst taking care of the […]
Not one of us! on December 4, 2016Ingroup favouritism is a reality. People like to categorise others as Us and Them or as We and They. Scholars have experimented with the brains of young children only to find out that we are naturally biased and like people similar to us as compared to dissimilar people. However, this natural discrimination was probably developed […]
Anti-discrimination laws in academia on June 17, 2016The constitution of Pakistan has the following lines in it: article 25 (1) all citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law. But what if the law about a certain issue simply doesn’t exist? Pakistan is a homogenous society. People from different ethnicities work together in different institutions across Pakistan. […]
The Paris attacks on November 15, 2015What happened in Paris on Friday is a repeat of the horror of 9/11 and as time passes the odious impact of the events in Paris is going to become an avalanche that may yet become another world war. The objective of the extremists behind the attack was clear: create an outrageous spectacle, invite backlash […]
Aylan Kurdi and shaken beliefs on September 9, 2015I have rarely been more disturbed. But, above all, rarely has anything shaken my beliefs as the image of little Syrian child Aylan Kurdi’s body washed upon the shores of the Turkish coast. I do not know if what I felt can be described as horror or shock but I am certain that it surely […]