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Bitter sweet

DIABETES is on a rampage in Pakistan. We are now a country with the third largest population of diabetic adults after China and India. According to the 10th edition of…

Health Notes

Health notes

Nephrology is the branch of medicine concerned with the physiology and diseases of the kidneys. The name comes from 'nephron', a functional unit within the kidney (a miniscule filter) consisting…

Facing the abyss

THE 2023 census puts our population at 241.499 million and our growth rate at 2.55 per cent. This means we are adding some 6m people to the population every year. For comparison,…

Broken Britannia

Since mid-August, as many people in the UK have been dying from Covid every 2 weeks as usually die from flu in a year: that’s approximately 1,400 fatalities. The UK…

Promoting Anti-science Via Textbooks

Promoting anti-science via textbooks

A biology textbook is normally expected to teach biology as science, meaning a scientifically based study of the structure, growth and origin of living things. But what if such a…

The Shape Of Society

The shape of society

The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor. We have a strange society. It is one in which acute differences in class place segments of people in different…

Betting On The Aam Admi

Betting on the Aam Admi

In politics, no one case study can be quoted to make a one-size-fits-all point. But even then, in a limited but significant sense, the remarkable victory of the Aam Admi…