Paradise Lost: remembering the Vanished City on April 4, 2017My idea of spring — seen through lens of a loyal Lahorite — has undergone massive transformation in last few decades — for good or bad, I am rather clueless. Earliest recollections pertain to mid-seventies when annual school results used to be announced — religiously — during the weeks falling in late March. I still […]
CV of green failures on March 28, 2017The notion of ‘CV failures’ is the brilliant brainchild of an Ivy League academician. I had the good fortune of stumbling across it recently. It was riveting. Even the purported failures of this wise man outshone the combined triumphs of many self-proclaimed achievers amongst us. Yet it was the sheer power of his thesis, which […]
Of green diplomacy and saffronisation on March 21, 2017Three pieces of news items — palpably disparate — seem to have only partially registered upon our collective consciousness in recent weeks. That Pakistan is globally amongst the ten most vulnerable countries in terms of susceptibility to adverse impacts of climate change; that Pakistan will transition from ‘water stressed country’ to ‘acute water scarce country’ […]
Green Trumpeting and Trampling on March 14, 2017When I hear our people getting agitated about the “environmental scepticism” of the US President, Donald Trump, these days, I find it hard to control my ire. It comes as a painful reckoning that polity in decision-making echelons in Pakistan has always and (barring a few exceptions) continues to display a similarly inane and stolid […]