Cogito, ergo sum, I think therefore I am, said Rene Descarte, in his Discourse on the Method and geared up our thinking faculties to a climax which could not be pulled by superstitions and other value-systems. This mind-prioritization seems true looking at the human discoveries from robots to electric cars to space ships to vaccines […]
RIGHTS-duties paradigm: a panacea to our parent-child conundrum
Almost about a few years ago, when I was only a third year law student, I learned in a Jurisprudence and Legal Theory class full of mostly perplexed, sometimes disinterested and only rarely intrigued students that rights and duties were mutually inclusive. That is they were two sides of the same coin. Or to put […]
Justice: An Ideal or Ordeal?
Justice is a concept that has had the longest history of human existence. It has, undoubtedly and irrefutably, painted our canvass of life through different shades of maxims; the most popular being: “justice is blind,” “justice delayed is justice denied,” “justice should not be done it should be seen to be done,” “justice means equality,” […]
Our common questions
Our lives are such that we are hardly ever out of questions. Just taking a glance at a few popular and most recurring ones will bear witness to this. What’s up? How are you? Where are you? Where are you going? Who are you going with? When will you come back? When will you call […]
Rule of law
When the notion of rule of law (RoL) is unpackaged, two concepts ensue. One is procedural limitation and the other is substantive limitation of governmental activity. Both are essential for good governance as the governmental activity constrains reciprocity and congruence between the ruler and the ruled through unfair processes (as in GCHQ case) and usurpation […]
Critical thinking
Our world is guided by presumptions, despite its intellectual fervour. Take a small example of how each one of us is presumed to be innocent unless proven guilty; so much so that its converse is a rule of law. Unsurprisingly, our legal fraternity, despite its centrality of logical reasoning, presumes that a person on the […]
My Quarantine Lesson
As human beings, we are all prone to despair in times of exigency. Much more, we are probable to forget that there is hope at the end of the tunnel. This is so true of our quarantine time. Here, there, everywhere, we see us all thinking about ways to scrap off Covid-19 from our notebook […]
Partronising others
People look down upon others. Like the unsolved scientific myth about why people dream I often feel the urge to ask myself why people patronise others. I feel convinced through aposteriori knowledge of my life that either they think they are intellectually superior, or they think they have fortunes to flaunt at others. Or maybe […]
What binds the judiciary?
It is the hallmark of our society to make uninformed and half-true statements and picture professionals as if they sit in ivory towers doing nothing. This projection has made the work of judiciary either misrepresented or misunderstood. Under such circumstances it is no surprise that asking about the duties of judges generates a lot of […]
Childhood-led Choice
Child abuse episodes that happen within the safe environment of homes and schools often go unreported. One such un-reported abuse is the story of an innocent Pakistani girl robbed of her security, safety and abuse-free life choices. She was nine years old, a second-grade student, when she found out (from a third party) that the […]