Those who can, teach on January 10, 2019Henry Brooks Adams – “Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.” Major G D Langlands – orphan, commando, officer, gentlman, educationist, humanitarian, institution, Order of the British Empire, Order of St Mary and St George, Sitara-e-Pakistan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, born English but a Pakistani hero – embarked on his final trek on January […]
Heroes on December 26, 2018Google recently honoured a great Pakistani hero with a doodle on his birthday. A great cricket batsman, an ICC Hall of Famer, whose name may still be mentioned in certain corners in reverential terms but who had generally faded from public memory over recent decades.A hero whose visage no longer sold various products like washing […]
The two December 16ths on December 19, 2018On December 16, 1971 Dhaka fell and we lost an all-important limb. The country has never been the same again. Not physically.Not spiritually. Not psychologically. A spear was driven through our heart. Our soul was irreparably damaged. On December 16, 2014, six gunmen – one Chechen, one Egyptian, one Moroccan, one Saudi and two Afghans […]
The T100 on December 12, 2018The Kaptaan’s first 100 (plus some) days have left even his most die-hard followers a bit red-faced, reduced to parroting the familiar refrain, “So would you rather have Nawaz? Or Zardari?” as an excuse. Not that any neutral commentator thought that the Kaptaan came in to bat on an easy wicket but when you promise […]