Amazing biology
There have been truly amazing developments in the sciences in recent decades. One important area that affects many people is obesity, which can lead to diabetes, heart disease and a…
Whirlwind of intolerance
The wave of intolerance that has been sweeping across Pakistan for many years is now threatening to deprive society of the last vestiges of resistance to barbarism and insanity. Barring…
What’s holding Pakistan together?
Not Islam – this fiction was exploded in 1971, and continues to be exposed today in Balochistan. Far from being a uniting factor religion, and the uses to which it…
At the tail end
The controversy surrounding world cricket’s shift from Dubai to Mumbai is out of place keeping in mind our market-oriented trajectory. From the traditional Lord’s to the upwardly mobile Dubai, the…
Modi, Muzaffarnagar and a Nehruvian hero
Lord Meghnad Desai is aghast at the way the Indian authorities and the Supreme Court have dealt with the alleged molestation case involving Justice AK Ganguly. Joining a television debate…
Education challenge
The refusal of Laado to accompany her mother to the paddy fields during the harvesting season because of homework is an encouraging sign in a society where education for girls…
With strings attached
Just when the two chief ministers of Punjab were, recently, exchanging pleasantries in Ludhiana, a grievous attempt was being made at stealing Basant. In Karachi, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari…
Copyright & IPO
Copyright can protect: literary works, including novels, instruction manuals, computer programs, song lyrics, newspaper articles and some types of database dramatic works, including dance or mime musical works artistic works,…
Effective use of mobile in social media
Why is social media so important? More people are using social media through their mobile phones, computers, and tablets than talking, calling, emailing and texting. Do you find this surprising?…
The day of the jackals
The politicians of Pakistan are not in the habit of saying anything in a measured and reflective manner. They do not believe in masterly understatements. Their preference is to howl…
