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NON-FICTION: THE MELANCHOLIC CITY

A historian looks at Lahore as a case-study to see how his hometown has systematically lost its connection to its many-splendoured

yesterday 20

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Dilemma of spin wickets

Dilemma of spin wickets

Pakistan’s cricket future is compromised when the focus remains on short-term success.

friday 20

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Dilemma of spin wickets

While preparing spin-friendly wickets has its place in certain contexts, it should not be the default approach.

friday 20

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Against children

Against children

It is clear that we are doing our best not to invest in the children of today.

17.01.2025 100

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Learning from a child

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...

03.01.2025 30

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Youth mental health

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...

20.12.2024 40

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Transport for schooling

A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for and organise transport for schoolchildren by the end of the...

06.12.2024 20

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Smog and schooling

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...

22.11.2024 3

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Running banks and airlines

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...

08.11.2024 1

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Learning: slow and steady

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...

25.10.2024 2

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For the people?

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...

11.10.2024 6

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‘Nasty, brutish, and short’

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...

27.09.2024 6

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NON-FICTION: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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...

15.09.2024 3

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NON-FICTION: PREPARING THE TEACHERS

Teaching and Teacher Education in Pakistan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives By Anjum Halai Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-969-7347-60-5...

01.09.2024 20

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Infrastructure blues

LAHORE has traffic jams and traffic congestion in the morning and afternoon; not when offices/businesses open and close, but when school sessions...

30.08.2024 4

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Admissions game

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...

16.08.2024 8

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NON-FICTION: CAN AI CHANGE EDUCATION?

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionise Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) By Salman Khan Viking ISBN: 978-0593656952 272pp. Artificial...

11.08.2024 20

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Squaring circles

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...

02.08.2024 10

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Bottom of the pile

LAST semester, an acquaintance taught, as adjunct faculty, a course at a very well-known and probably the best public sector university in the...

19.07.2024 10

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