Responsible Citizens in the New Normal on May 20, 2020The Government here has eased the lockdown in order to combat an economic fallout. One has already noted the mammoth shift in consumer behavior during the COVID-19 crisis. Our next steps in these crucial moments would be the deciding factor as the nation opens up slowly. Some countries have already taken the decision to do […]
Ehsaas’ during a Global Crisis on May 10, 2020The Ehsaas program, which falls under the Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division, officially started last year. This kicked into effect as a lifesaver to the country just as the pandemic hit and cases surged throughout the country. The efficiency of the material purpose of the program was soon to be tested in practical terms […]
Ramzan under a lockdown on May 3, 2020Things that have always held true on the advent of the holy month of Ramazan are the joyful messages and the flood of greetings and peace in your inbox from around the world. This year was under a different scenario as things were completely different and so was the form of expression. This time around […]
Fighting COVID-19 together as one global community on April 25, 2020The spread of COVID-19 has brought up many responsibilities within many groups of people as realization hit that it was soon to go through the cities with the rapid increase of cases reported. As one community held council meetings, through different media and means, of how to deal with the onset of the virus, one […]
Online education and the pandemic on April 20, 2020As my six-year-old nephew in New York logged onto the tablet set up by his parents for his online school classes, I wondered at the pre-emptive measures that had been taken for the sake of education and certainly for the sake of normalcy during the onset of the pandemic. A beautiful example of e-learning as […]
Digital Reality in a “Viral” World on April 12, 2020A friend mentioned that he suddenly felt like he was in the middle of the 90’s movie “Demolition Man” due to the advent of social distancing. I ignored his quip as I tried to wade through the flood of messages advertising online services and the shift to working remotely from home. And that was just […]
Pakistani Women in Business: Ayla Majid on April 5, 2020We meet Ayla Majid, Managing Director of Financial Advisory Services at Khalid Majid Rehman Chartered Accountants. Holding an MBA from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a law degree from the University of London and an ACCA Qualification, Majid also sits on various boards and advises both public and private organisations on growth and strategic […]
Unity in the time of Isolation on March 28, 2020Today, in 2020, we face another war, one being fought worldwide and against something quite unfathomable called the “unseen” enemy. We had no previous defence strategy developed for it. Cities, towns and entire countries have fallen victim to one of the most widespread viruses in the world. What started as a small news clip about […]
Making Sense in the Time of Coronavirus on March 21, 2020Leaving aside all the conspiracy theories on the virus that have been deleted from my WhatsApp, the lockdown of Italy and the rest of the European countries was inevitable and necessary when by mid-March the number of infected persons listed in Italy jumped from a few hundred to thousands within days – and have continued […]
Sheherbano Husain: inner sanctum on March 15, 2020“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” Albert Einstein We meet talented artist and art curator Sheherbano Husain who was recently a speaker at the Karachi Literature Festival this year. Sheherbano has taught painting, drawing and art theory at […]