We are a generation of a typical classroom both as a teacher and as a student. This is how we have experienced academia. In the face-to-face classes, we, both teachers and students, get energy from one another and try to develop that synergy in class through interactive sessions so that everyone becomes a part of […]
Evaluating Jinnah’s vision post 73 years
Exploring history objectively can be daunting. One may trap in one’s own biases or may become vulnerable to ideological inclinations of the authors who give birth to history via their texts. History, of course, is subjective and, in its creation, is more dependent upon the author where he/she comes from. However, there is a science […]
The strains within Pakistan’s feminist discourse
This year, the United Nations’ officially recognised theme for International Women’s Day was #EachforEqual. Its essence is that everyone can play a role in the creation of a gender-inclusive society via change in action, behaviour and mindset. Through collective individualism, we can help create a society that is conducive for all sexes and in which […]
Why you should be a teacher?
We are not selling teaching the way it should be. This is not what only I am saying; it was in Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy’srecent article titled “Why Pakistan loses its best”, published in Dawn. I quote: “Pakistan’s universities-all of them-are cesspools of political filth and intrigue. In a system with perverted values and nonsensical selection […]
Student Solidarity March: Seed for Actual “Naya Pakistan”
It came late but it is better that, finally, it has made its way into the mainstream media including both social and electronic with a lot of buzz. Pakistan’s youth under the stewardship of students are making headlines across all media platforms in the wake of Student Solidarity March taking place on November 29, 2019, […]
Is our education system catching up to digital challenges?
These days I teach at the Department of Political Science in the University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore, in the capacity of visiting faculty. It’s my second semester of teaching, and I must say that the experience has been an enriching one. My first semester was not an easy ride. Adjusting with all the […]
#MeToo movement & Feminist discourse in Pakistan
The need for women empowerment is one of the sore points of society in Pakistan which pops up its head now and then through episodes of women marginalization and triggers a feminist discourse in its wake; however, every time it leaves the society with some more questions to introspect on. In the last two years, […]
India’s ultranationalism: a threat to hard earned global peace
Nationalism is not in human psyche. It does not happen to humans naturally. There is no gain saying the fact that humans are social animals but the urge to be in close proximity with other humans among humans remains confined to small tribes and it’s not natural for humans to feel an urge to get […]
Modi will implode India
India is considered to be the world’s largest democracy and there is no doubt that India has accommodated in itself a huge diversity-be it with respect to religions, sects, ethnicities and caste groups. Post 1947 partition, India, off course, has excelled in many areas like economic development, sports and cinema; however, India, in many ways, […]
Turning Pakistan’s demographic dividend into economic dividend
Pakistan is currently at face with economic void. The budget for fiscal year 2018-2019, which PTI presented a few months before,has brought into spotlight all the economic challenges that Pakistan has to battle against in the coming years. As per the budget presented, the country’s total debt and liabilities have reached Rs31, 000 billion during […]