A Tapestry of Medicine and Life on January 3, 2021Author : Dr. Syed Amjad Hussain In the essay in this book captioned, ‘Murder most Foul’ one finds a heartrending story of a magnificent 2000 year old Peepal tree, of nearly 10-12 feet girth, located in Peshawar city, mentioned in 600 BC in his travelogue by the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Hiuen Tsang, where Kanishka set […]
A central undercurrent in Mizh is keen respect for, desire to understand Mahsud tribal society on December 23, 2020The tradition of scholar-administrators in British India did dwindle after partition, but totally extinct it did not become. Despite the censorious cavilling about civil servants from various quarters for being high browed mandarins cut off from the commonality, here we have in a worthy coalescence, a compendium of two books by outstanding civil servants, Sir […]
Progressive capital or wealth tax on June 9, 2020With the Budget for the next year, 2020- 21, to be announced after a few days, Hafeez Shaikh and his team is confronted with a serious dilemma of how to balance off the revenues with the expenditures. A budgetary deficit of up to 9% of the GDP for the year is being predicted all around. […]