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 […]
Ensuring Human Rights on May 23, 2023Modern as well as ancient civilizations have been based on human rights and equality for all. The modern constitutions, like that of America, the UK, Canada, and Australia, all guarantee the surety of human rights for all and sundry. This can be held in the case of many postcolonial countries, albeit the fact that human […]
The Advent of AI in Pakistani Classrooms on May 11, 2023The 21st century brought many mind-blowing revolutions, mostly to benefit mankind by accomplishing tasks to facilitate life and progress further. The Internet, cell phones, electric cars, and spacecraft, like James Webb Space Telescope, have significantly added new dimensions to mankind and its relationship and status in the world around. The latest addition to this line […]
Kamila Shamsi’s experiment with female friendship on May 10, 2023The world of literature has been portraying models of friendship but mainly that of the male friends, as in Shakespeare’s drama ‘Merchant of Venice’, exemplary friendship was seen between Bassanio and Antonio and in the modern context friendship between Orangzeb and Dara Shikoh in Hamid’s novel ‘Moth Smoke’. In the former case, sincere and supportive […]
Plugging Leaks on May 1, 2023This is the age of leaks everywhere, mostly aiming to undermine some or the other. There are leaks of Apple, Google and Microsoft in the developed world as well but for the information about the upcoming projects. In our country leaks have become a tool to undermine the opponents or to file cases against the […]
Re-routing to Pakistan through Anglophone poetry on April 30, 2023After 1857, British imperialist colonialism asserted itself with full vigour in the Indo-Pak subcontinent and justified its rule and power by taking control of the social institutions. For example, English literature studies were introduced, representing of the people under occupation by the colonial master began. This representation was rewound after decolonisation in the 1940s and […]
Higher Education and Financial Constraints on April 19, 2023The recent reports in print and electronic media about the financial poverty of universities in Pakistan have stirred panic not only among academia, scholars, and students but also among the state-loving citizens of Pakistan. According to the news, a university in south Punjab could not credit salaries to its employees timely in the current month. […]
Patriarchy’s mega challenge on April 18, 2023The patriarchal setup has gradually relented and given space to the women of the formerly colonised countries and lost the traditional power that came with the social setup. Imperialist and culturalist colonisation is the game-changing event of the past two centuries because it brought forward the two distinct strains of social setup in the world. […]
Colonialism to Globalisation on April 6, 2023The world is divided into the North and South and the North has built and progressed because of the colonization of man and material of the South. This signifies colonialism as a dominating force primarily benefitting European countries like England, France, Spain, and many others. The American countries are another addition to modern colonialism of […]