Anti-Corruption Day on December 10, 2022“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, mother and the teacher.”-APJ Abdul Kalam Ever since the passage of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in 2003, December 9 is […]
Open Your Mouth? on December 3, 2022“When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to control those who are abusing power.”-Jorge Ramos Article 19 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan pertaining to freedom of speech etc. […]
Let the Light In on November 26, 2022“Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind”-Dr Abdus Salam Knowledge is just knowledge! It cannot be compartmentalised into ideological factions. For example, it cannot be said that physics is related to Christianity, or chemistry is purely Jewish or botany is only for the Hindus and so forth. As mankind […]
World Toilet Day: Is Hygiene Important? on November 19, 2022“Pakistan is in fact the third largest country, behind India and Indonesia, where people are forced to defecate in the open”-Arif Mahmood, Dawn March 10, 2015 The United Nations Organization (UNO) has declared November 19 as “World Toilet Day” and has declared that we are facing a global sanitation crisis. This is because as of […]
Political Labyrinth! on November 12, 2022“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”-HL Mencken (1880-1956) As children, we are taught to be patriotic towards our country and its people. This is the reason that serving […]
Passive-Aggressive Behaviour on November 5, 2022“Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive aggression and paranoid confusion.”-Kate Fox (Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour) Among the living species, human beings are most unique in multiple senses of the word. No one can tell with certainty whatever is going on in […]
Less is Better! on October 28, 2022“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.” -Rabindranath Tagore The world today has become an explosive arena of information passing from one source to another within microseconds leaving no time for recipients to process its contents. Had […]
Empty Nest Syndrome on October 22, 2022“People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you it is no laughing matter. It is really hard”-Michelle Pfeiffer The other day, a friend mentioned that both her children had settled abroad for good and that she was planning to visit them. Her gleeful voice betrayed the underlying despair that […]
So Much for Equality! on October 15, 2022“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”-Aristotle Before daring to write upon this particular topic, my humble apology to advocates of feminism, for which I consider myself a strong proponent too but also agree with Timothy Leary when he says: “Women who seek to be equal with men lack […]
Blame Game to Audio Leaks on October 8, 2022“Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency”-Jonathan Turley Moving from simple to complex and from mere rudiments to advanced technologies, bring within its folds complications that are both […]