Tapping the Pakistani Folklore on January 10, 2024Pakistan is a rich tapestry of folk tales, songs, and stories with historical background and tradition and inherits diverse cultural and traditional values. Most of these tales are regional and represent a floral colour of the region and its history and culture. The stories feature mythical creatures, moral lessons, and local heroes that include Punjabi […]
Making of Empowered Learner on November 29, 2023One of the basic aims of educating the young is to empower them to meet the future challenges posed by this post-global and post-media age. But at least in Pakistan, this realization is a far-off dream because a large number of educational institutions, at all levels, are running and imparting education in a conventional style […]
From Assemblers to Manufacturers on August 5, 2023The long-lasting turmoil jolt to the Pakistani economy teaches several lessons and brings forth multiple reasons for its occurrence. One of these is that the Pakistani economy since its inception has been a consumer economy which gradually led to diverting our gaze to readily available materials for our consumption which capitalist economies furnished even by […]
Books Must Survive on July 21, 2023Recently, it has been seen that the production and writing of books have undergone a gradual decline and there has been a significant increase in the writing of research papers and articles. Book writing decline is one of the major reasons for the decline of readership in our country and hence is the decline in […]
Democratizing Media for Public Good on July 6, 2023As the hackneyed phrase, “Media is the fourth pillar of a state or government,” mass media is expected to play a concrete and vital role in guarding the public benefit, which requires a free press and independent media (within the constitutional parameters and ethical bindings); otherwise, it would fail to bring the fruit of democracy […]
Pakistani anglophone theatre on July 5, 2023Revisiting history to understand it and locate the socio-political realities through it to propagate one’s cultural values and art has been a focus of significant dramatists. The same was followed by the Greek dramatist and later by Shakespeare, whose major works are history-based. Even modern drama focuses on the stories developing in some new historical […]
From hero to protagonist on June 20, 2023The world of postcolonial literature revamped the concept of the Greek Hero in its appearance, work and place in the story. Probably because of the evolution in shape, style and narrative of politics, rather than poetics, the traditional Hero was replaced with the person, man or woman, who seemingly leads the story. Even one account […]
Politics in Postcolonial States on June 20, 2023A politician in a formerly colonized State like Pakistan is not a political leader but rather a ruler of his people and is constantly engaged in proving his legitimacy more to the external forces than the indigenous ones. The legacies of the Colonial Era have not let democratic politics succeed in such States, and the […]
Tapping Human Capital on June 7, 2023The land of the pure, our country, is bustling and bulging with a terrifically increasing human population at a time when sources are inversely depleting. In four years, we have reached 240 million figures without ever planning the future of such a massive number of mouths to be fed. In the miseries of otherwise life […]
Forster’s own world on June 6, 2023Edward Morgan Foster is one of the few shining stars after Kipling, who influenced the formerly colonized world of the Indo-Pak subcontinent through their writings. Foster represented two worlds in his novel ‘A Passage to India’; one of the Whiteman and the other of the brown man, and made equal justice with both. He mainly […]