Many poets, popular and prolific in their time but lost in the veils of today's time, wrote about Gandhi. The charismatic figure of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began to exert a spell on writers and poets of his age, even before stepping on Indian soil upon returning from South Africa. On a sea voyage from London […]
Treating education as the place of emergency decisions is a poor policy because it trivializes meaningful learning. Spend enough time on Twitter, sorting out the endless forwarding of WhatsApp videos or consuming other similar sources of information about one of the many crises affecting Pakistan today, and you are likely to experience, in addition to
Yusuf was only a teenager at the time of his capture. Under arrest, he suffered humiliation and abuse. The following is the story of Hamid Yusuf, a Pakistani citizen who spent seven years in extrajudicial detention at the Parwan Detention Center in Afghanistan, popularly known as Bagram Prison, and died of cancer shortly after his
The government's approach must shift towards reforms that improve productivity. At this time, almost everyone recognizes that the consumption-driven growth model that Pakistan has come to rely on to achieve high growth rates is unsustainable. Most commentators also agree that Pakistan must shift to exports as the key driver of growth. This narrative has given
As temperatures rise and the monsoon unleashes its fury, dengue may move to areas not affected by it. A boy is examined in the dengue room of Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpinidi – Photo: Sara Farid Last week, thousands of young Pakistanis, energized through calls from Climate Action Pakistan to a climate attack, marched through the
The tragedy behind the lake is bigger than the landslide that created it. Franz Kafka wrote in Metamorphosis"But what would happen if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the satisfaction came to a horrible end?" I kept thinking about what Kafka said while I was in Hunza last month. The picturesque cascading glaciers in
All the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali resonates with nostalgia, memory and, sometimes, the loss of memory of her own home. “I hope that the mail is not very affected due to the problems in the country and that this letter reaches you. I hope this madness stops, with all my love and even more,
The Indus Delta was once prosperous. Today is the home of suffering, discouragement and death. The Indus River, the vertebra of our country, travels 3,200 kilometers in total and, if taken care of, is able to provide sustenance for everyone, from Kashmir to the Arabian Sea. But without the release of fresh water in the
Collective action may be what is needed to secure the lives and livelihoods of future generations. Climate change is no longer limited to books or scientific articles; It is a reality knocking at our doors. The longest and suffocating summers that bring record heat to South Asia are just an example. The toughest conditions are
It may very well be the case. About a decade ago, in March 2010, newspapers crammed with articles on police torture following an incident in Chiniot in which suspects accused of street crimes were stripped, tortured and publicly humiliated by police in front of a police station . The videos of the incident led to