The image of the “chalk and talk” classroom- static rows of desks, a teacher lecturing at a blackboard, a single textbook dictating the pace of learning for forty children at once- is dying everywhere. In its place, a new architecture is emerging: the school as a living CPU, a hyper-integrated ecosystem of sensors, software, and […]
The Weaponisation of Rivers and Water by India (Part II)
The response Pakistan needs is not a single dramatic gesture. It is a sustained, simultaneous campaign across three fronts – and encouragingly, some movement on each front is already discernible, even if the pace and coordination can be strengthened. The legal front. Pakistan should press its case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the World […]
The Weaponisation of Rivers and Water by India (Part I)
Somewhere in the upper reaches of the Chenab, beyond the snowfields of Lahaul-Spiti, engineers are drilling an 8.7-kilometre tunnel through a Himalayan mountain. When completed, it will silently redirect water that has flowed toward Pakistan for millions of years, channelling it instead into India’s Beas River system – away from the fields of Pakistani Punjab, […]