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Beyond the many controversies

As a nation we are being hit by one controversy and one conspiracy after the other. Most recently, the future of two small islands lying off the Karachi coast has…

Options for schooling

This novel coronavirus still stumps world-renowned epidemiologists. How can parents adequately ascertain what’s best? My kids have tearfully intimated on more occasions than I care to acknowledge that they want…

The science of trolling

The contemporary term ‘troll’, exists in two forms. It is a noun and a verb. The noun troll was originally a Norse mythological creature. Very much like shame, it resided…

‘Irrational’ violence

AS with all pieces on the issue, this one too starts off with the premise that no amount of condemnation is enough for the lawyers’ rampage at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology…

Facebook, Dopamine And InstaGrat

Facebook, Dopamine and InstaGrat

InstaGrat. It is not quite the same as Instagram, where we can put up pictures of what we want the world to see of us. InstaGrat is the instant gratification…

Soaring prices, rising anger in country

Nearly one year after the election that brought Imran Khan to power in Pakistan, the cricket-hero-turned-prime-minister faces growing anger as he chases an elusive target: how to right the South…

Soaring prices, rising anger in country

Nearly one year after the election that brought Imran Khan to power in Pakistan, the cricket-hero-turned-prime-minister faces growing anger as he chases an elusive target: how to right the South…

Indian media demonizing Kashmiri men

The music videos began appearing on social media within hours of the announcement by India's Hindu-led nationalist government that it was stripping statehood from the disputed region of Kashmir that…