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Faisal BariDawn |
A historian looks at Lahore as a case-study to see how his hometown has systematically lost its connection to its many-splendoured
Pakistan’s cricket future is compromised when the focus remains on short-term success.
While preparing spin-friendly wickets has its place in certain contexts, it should not be the default approach.
It is clear that we are doing our best not to invest in the children of today.
MY daughter, who is seven and a half, is my latest teacher. She is in grade two. She gets a fair bit of homework and she is kind enough that she...
IT was a couple of years before Covid-19 that I started realising that something was changing quite fundamentally on the mental health front for...
A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for and organise transport for schoolchildren by the end of the...
WHETHER schools are open or closed, it is not going to have much of an impact on smog levels across Punjab. The decision about closing schools has...
THE provinces are already running banks: Bank of Punjab, Sindh Bank and Bank of Khyber. Balochistan is the only province that does not have a bank...
A SEVEN-year-old recently asked me, while crying, why learning was so difficult and took so much time. She was trying to learn to read and write...
SOMETIME ago, I had to apply for a visit visa to a country that required a ‘police certificate’ as well. This was the first time I had heard of the...
ON the roads we see drivers from the police department or cars with green number plates driving recklessly and aggressively as if they have the...
How to be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and more on Each Other By C.L. Skach Basic Books ISBN: 978-1541605534 262pp. Recently, I was in...
Teaching and Teacher Education in Pakistan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives By Anjum Halai Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-969-7347-60-5...
LAHORE has traffic jams and traffic congestion in the morning and afternoon; not when offices/businesses open and close, but when school sessions...
GONE are the days when students would search and find college and university programmes to apply to by themselves or with the help of their...
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionise Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) By Salman Khan Viking ISBN: 978-0593656952 272pp. Artificial...
THREE people, who earn around Rs40,000 a month, approached me for help recently. Their electricity bills were Rs54,000, Rs24,000 and Rs23,000. I am...
LAST semester, an acquaintance taught, as adjunct faculty, a course at a very well-known and probably the best public sector university in the...