Doubly Marginalised Minority Women on January 19, 2022Pakistani working women, even after earning money for themselves and ensuring a certain level of independence for them, are still living a marginalized life. If the working woman belongs to any minority community, she is doubly marginalised. Such a woman is Alice Bhatti in the novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif published […]
Engaging learners for 21st Century digital world on January 12, 2022It is pretty necessary for a teacher to ask himself what objectives he is intends to achieve when he is going in the classroom because he is the one who is supposed to know very well what does it means to teach. A few of these objectives can be to develop critical thinking, communication skills […]
Zaibunisa Hameedullah’s traditional women characters on January 7, 2022Hameedullah took up the cause of developing the society by influencing through literature. Her short stories may not be a pure social propaganda, yet it does highlight certain oppressive social values. The biggest hall mark of Hameedullah’s stories is to keep the Punjab village traditions alive and to show how the women of the Punjabi […]
Philosophy of existentialism and waiting humanity on December 31, 2021Sartre and Heidegger proposed the idea that human beings were not the part of the plan of universe and so their existence is meaningless and so are their sufferings because of this mis-fitness. Now they are at liberty to find a purpose of their life in this meaningless world and so humans are what they […]
Life Skills and Education on December 22, 2021Pan American Health Organization stressed in 2001 that life skill approach to the child is necessary for adolescents’ healthy human development. If we wish to make our future generations successful, we need to teach life skills to our children. The current digital information and innovations with artificial intelligence call for a multitalented and multiliterate citizen […]
Absence of women in Harold Pinter’s play ‘The Caretaker’ on December 16, 2021The absence of women characters in Pinter’s “The Caretaker” is not strange because of the absurd nature of the play where communication is impossible even within the characters’ own self and the result is the silence and miscommunication. This inability of the characters leads to confusion and lack of capacity to articulate. Hence, Aston, the […]
Postcolonial reverberation in Stephen Crane’s A Dark Brown Dog on December 6, 2021Postcolonial is the name of intervention and resistance which is between the binarily opposing entities like Powerful & powerless, Ruler & ruled, Colonizer & Colonized and Oppressor & Oppressed. In terms if Ania Loomba, where there is Oppression and the Oppressed, Postcolonial is present. Seen in this context, the short Story A Dark Brown Dog […]
Bapsi’s portrayal of Parsi paradigm on November 14, 2021Sidhwa is Parsee by her religious identity and so in a Muslim majority country, like Pakistan, she belongs to minority country just as the Parsees do in India. Like Rohinton Mistry, Sidhwa also portrays her community as a Minority community in Pakistan. Her novels are two-pronged strategy of portraying the postcolonial Pakistan, that firstly, her […]
What women want — Nora’s definition of love on October 31, 2021Women of age of information want more respect for them than they would value love exhibited by their counterparts. The sweet loving words may not be that good for them unless these are accompanied with respect. As it happens in case of NORA in the drama A Doll’s House by Ibsen. Nora is a prototype […]
Ghose’s ‘Murder of Aziz Khan’ and Marxist ideology on October 22, 2021If one needs to know the history of early Pakistan and the role of brown masters on the poor and the destitute, critical reading of Zulfikar Ghose’ The Murder of Aziz Khan, would prove the best read. According to Tariq Rehman “The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967) is the most significant novel about Pakistan’s social […]