What to the slave?
Slavery has persisted through the ages. It is a heart-wrenching saga for the inhumanity and tragedy it entails. Aristotle and Plato are considered the fathers of Western philosophy. They thought…
Debt trap — I
Pakistan’s emergent default forecast derives its strength from the fact that it’s once negligible public debt of Rs 711 billion in 1990 has soared to Rs 52,721 billion by 2022,…
Came Modi, and there was light?
NOBODY should take S. Jaishankar’s barbs to heart. The foreign minister has to say what he says because his job is to shore up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s self-congratulatory foreign…
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The 12-day Sharjah International Book Fair successfully concluded in the UAE on November 13. A large number of award-winning authors, writers, novelists, intellectuals, artists, creators and other well-known personalities from…
Law and literature
Which is better – the spoken word of law or the written word of law? In the modern world this may not be a relevant question. We accept whatever as…
The right to water
The people of Pakistan, particularly those in southern Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, are facing the worst kind of water crisis. Electronic and social media are inundated with images of disease-ridden…
Whose revolt is it anyway?
The past two months – starting with discussions about the no-confidence motion, its passage and the PDM government taking over eventually – have been truly unstable times for Pakistan. This…
A look at democracy
Part - I The National Institute of Pakistan Studies (NIPS) at the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad is a rare centre of debate and discussion where one can speak freely. When Prof…
Crisis of political imagination
It keeps us on our toes to defend the fortress of morality and keep the power of a shrewd politician far away from us. It keeps us engaged in a…
The relevance of ancient wisdom
Akbar S Ahmed’s new book, ‘The Flying Man’, is a masterpiece for our times. I use this word carefully to suggest that only a master of his subject could bring…
