The new Trump order
WITH one stroke of his pen, a day after April Fool’s Day, Trump left the entire world bewildered at his tariff policy. He made the entire secretariat of the World…
A most predictable coup
As certain as thunder accompanies rain, like water floods the plain, and like Trump rolled over on Ukraine, just as certainly the bureaucracy always seeks to extend its influence over,…
Best of times…
JUNE 2020. What a wonderful time to be living in! How glorious the wave of resistance — to one of the worst forms of discrimination — that has swept the…
Coronavirus and the youth
In the fight against the coronavirus, everyone is wondering about what role each segment of society can play. If we just talk about the youth in Pakistan, they can play…
Why they lynched Mashal Khan
The mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The Nobel Prize winning ethologist, Konrad Lorenz, says such persons experience the ‘Holy Shiver’ (called heiliger…
No space for debate
The word ‘meme’ or ‘memetic’ – from the Greek mimetes, which means to imitate – was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book, The Selfish Gene (1976). The…
Blind faiths
Both India and Pakistan have yet to decide to which century they wish to belong. Does India seriously want to return to the Vedic age? Or Pakistan to an Arabia…
Physician heal thyself
We are in the bad habit of pontificating to the Afghans. We have incessantly lectured them on the need for peace and stability in their country and proffered the unsolicited…
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The first known philosopher to have taken a whack at this problem was Aristotle. Since then, eggheads and children alike have been vexed by this query. Modern geneticists now tend…
Faith and folly
Curious to a fault, I follow scientific developments and discoveries with interest. In particular, recent advances in astrophysics and quantum phenomena fascinate me. These inquiries into the birth of the…
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