New global challengeon April 5, 2020So far, the most lethal weapons which have the capacity to obliterate human race from the surface of the earth are hydrogen and atom bombs, but the people have never truly felt their danger as acutely and as imminently as they have felt a danger from a virus which is a non-living genetic element and […]
The king without kingdomon March 28, 2020This world is full of strange people whose thinking, personality and habits are very different from normal people. Such people remain in seclusion and seldom come into limelight. One such person is The Dalai Lama who has been the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism and traditionally has been responsible for the governing of Tibet, until […]
Sufi of whirling darvesheson March 24, 2020Since my childhood, not a day went by when I did not hear the mention of Moulana Jalaluddin Rumi’s name with a lot of love and respect from my parents, teachers and friends, and it was natural that for such a towering personality I drew close to him, and took a keen interest in his […]
Was Iqbal against scientific enlightenmenton March 12, 2020I love Professor Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, an eminent physicist of Pakistan, for being generally objective and rational, in his analysis of social issues. But unfortunately he suffers from a bias against anybody who for some reasons says something against science. This is against the norms of fair criticism. A few days ago,I happened to watch […]
Arundhati Roy’s Clark Lecture 2020on March 1, 2020In the murky environment of every ruthless state, there are always some sane voices which keep speaking against the repressive acts and policies of the state so valiantly and fearlessly that the state is afraid of taking action against such a person for fear of strong public reaction against the government. The only such woman […]
The beginning of the endon February 16, 2020It is the principle of nature that the forces of repression and violence do not stay for long. It is universally known that the rise to power of the Bharatia Janata Party in 2019 in General Elections was not due to any radical programme of reforms for the up-lift of the common man, but it […]
Superstition rules in Pakistanon February 14, 2020Superstition is generally understood to mean a belief or practice resulting from ignorance or fear of the unknown, that certain things happen without any physical cause. And the happening of such an occurrence is believed to be due to some magic or bad omen, which have no scientific basis. On the subject of superstition, Stuart […]
Who rules the world?on January 29, 2020Recently the Metropolitan publishers of New York released the book of Noam Chomsky, ‘Who Rules the World?” in aPDF form for the convenience of readers who had no earlier access to the book which was actually written at the end of 2016. The book in its ebook format has become handy to Pakistani audience which […]
Nothing succeeds like successon January 23, 2020For many generations, the thought which has most occupied humanity has been to find out some formula by which one could become successful overnight. This is despite the fact that we know that success does not come so handy in life nor it comes too soon. But the people whom we daily see being so […]
The humourist who delighted in the absurdon January 17, 2020For quite some time, I have been writing about serious matters which have made me pretty sombre. This, I fear, may turn into a morbid situation. I have, therefore, chosen to write about a man who took everything in his stride; made fun of situations of all kinds with his scintillating humour and wit, and […]