HEC, Holi and identity crises
Changing the world for future generations is one of the primary tasks of education, more so of higher education. A recent letter by the executive director (ED) of the Higher…
Whose language is it anyway?
Recently, a person from the village that one of the writers of this piece comes from approached him about applying to the Prime Minister’s Youth Skill Development Program (PMYSDP). This…
What endangers a language?
Students of the Institute of Management Sciences, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) organized a two-day literary and academic event called Peshawar Literary Festival on February 4 and 5, soon after the January…
Language Day
LAST Monday was International Mother Language Day. In Pakistan some seminars were held but they had no impact on the national discourse. Few in this country consider language a significant…
Happy children
LAST week, I went to Lyari to attend the Food and Fun Festival. Organised by the Ilm-o-Hunar School, the event left a positive impression on me as the youth appeared…
On the Ayaz Melo
The Ayaz Melo is a fine example of how the power of two women – Amar Sindhu and Arfana Mallah – can transform a nearly barren intellectual landscape into a…
Bilawal’s plan for Karachi
The metropolitan city of Karachi – also known as the city of lights – with its multilingual demography holds key strategic importance in terms of trade, business, education and health.…
Is it child abuse?
HERE is a narrative to introduce the subject so close to my heart. At a family gathering, I was chatting with my cousin’s granddaughter, a lively girl of three. As…
Back to the past
"Religious warfare and economic chaos threaten the newly born nation of 70 million moslems", subtitle of the article on Pakistan in Life Magazine issue of January 5, 1948. The magazine's…
Linguistic challenge
ANYONE who has grown up in Pakistan in the ’80s and ’90s would have heard school-going children ‘playing’ Oranges and Lemons and London Bridge is Falling Down. They would have…
