Living the Age of Technopolitics on November 29, 2024As per Edward Said’s Orientalism, the Imperialist nations took technical superiority as a matter of right to conquer and rule over the lesser technical nations. This raised a clear-cut divide between the colonizer and the colonized. A similar spirit has prevailed over the ages. And so only a few nations progressed and achieved the highest […]
Balancing Human Progress and Planetary Health on November 20, 2024Human progress has largely depended on the harnessing of natural resources in the shape of food, fuel, and other useful aspects of life. The human beings developed their colonies and communities only after exploiting the sources of nature and, so, made tremendous progress in making their life easier, comfortable, and faster. But while doing so, […]
Fading Traditional Classroom on November 13, 2024Recent closure by the government of Punjab has forced our classrooms to be shut down once again because of the smog and its related disease and issues. There is no denying the fact that the human beings have been changing their lifestyles as per the natural dictates towards them. It has been seen that during […]
Addressing Out-of-School Children on October 8, 2024Pakistan and its people have been unlucky throughout history because even after several schemes and plans to raise the educated people percentage and to improve the standard of education has been always at a dismal stage. According to UNICEF Pakistan 22.8 million children are now out of school in Pakistan. The worst outcome of the […]
Living the Age of Miscommunication on October 4, 2024Harari, in his world-famous book ‘Sapiens’, opines that human beings made a strong and well-connected community because they could communicate with each true and right with an added benefit of doing so face to face. It was their power of speech that set them apart from other species and placed them at the highest mark […]
Power of Reading on September 24, 2024The recent announcement of the higher education department Punjab to establish reading corners in the libraries of the college is a highly laudable and much-needed act and is being widely appreciated because Reading, the famous philosopher Bacon claims that “makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man”. The significance of […]
Education and Neo-Liberalism on September 15, 2024Education is a right of every individual in almost every nation of the world. This right is secure in the civilized and progressive world but has so far diminished in the not much developed societies. Consequently, the individuals in such societies do exhibit an abhorrence to education and seldom find themselves at the comfortable level […]
Public sector Colleges in the age of AI on August 21, 2024Recently, a huge hype was detected in the higher education department on the issue of low admissions in the public sector colleges from Associate to Graduate levels in comparison to the private sector college which have been reported to enrol long lists of students. The efforts of HED are laudable but while fixing unrealistic targets […]
Universities and Empowered Socioeconomic Future on June 29, 2024Regardless of the multiple nature of the issues the universities face, their main function is to serve the people by providing a forum for discussion and debate to formulate wholesome policies for its people’s moral, social, and political uplift. Besides, the universities are expected to develop a genuine creation of new knowledge via research and […]
Unpacking Intolerance in Pakistan on June 1, 2024Pakistan is a tiny part of the globe and is undergoing multivariate issues caused because of intolerance. Be it any official group or a combination of individuals, all have been found resorting to violence without any dialogue or argument that could be employed to solve the issue. The only solution in or at the hands […]