Pandemic stirs Wall Street’s social conscience
Worker welfare is having a moment on Wall Street. The need to restart production lines and reopen offices idled by the coronavirus pandemic mean issues such as sick pay and…
Social conscience in Islam
While Islam stresses on strengthening the connectivity with the Creator through worship, it also provides valuable ethical ideals to bond humanity. A large portion of the Holy Quran and teachings…
India’s conscience
It has been more than a year since progressive students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) ignited a countrywide movement against the excesses of the Indian state. Long considered a denizen of anti-establishment…
Raising national conscience
What will it take to raise our conscience and our understanding that there are things that need to be remedied urgently in our country? There is no sign that this…
Refugees and our conscience
Born to an Afghan family living in our neighbourhood, Wali was a five-year-old child who used to be my son’s playmate. The only thing I remember about him is the…
The media’s crisis of conscience
In some ways, the Axact scandal has intimations of a classical tragedy. A powerful individual has fallen because of his own monumental failings in circumstances with which he cannot deal.…
Crafting economic and social transformation
The manifestoes of the political parties - all political parties have listed most of the transformations that they will bring about if they came to power. Most of the political…
Remembering Aga Khan III
The year 1911 is not a distant past in the history of the subcontinent; Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, in his inaugural address to the Muslim Educational Conference,…
Labour judicial activism
Judicial activism, which germinated in the premises of the Supreme Court of India during Mid 1970, soon graduated into a sort of imperialism. Judicial Imperialism by Labour Courts, Labour Appellate…
Who killed Mashal Khan?
What was killed in the form of the bodily existence of Mashal Khan was liberal and progressive thinking and 21st century global thinking. But, who killed him: the one who…
