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M Nadeem Nadir

M Nadeem Nadir

The Express Tribune

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Efficiency vs effectiveness

Making efforts to achieve quantified targets is the zeitgeist of today's world. Our obsession with metrics, targets and standardised indicators...

22.04.2025 80

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Context can change behaviour

The people who haggle for each penny with shopkeepers in an open marketplace exhibit a sophisticated behavioural and attitudinal change when they...

15.12.2024 6

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Loopholes in the rationalisation policy of teachers

Asymmetrical and disproportionate availability of teachers to students misdirects all efforts and policies to buttress our crumbling education...

08.12.2024 10

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Cult of people-pleasing

In a world dominated by show-offy appearances, social recognition and tangible benchmarks of success, a surreptitious epidemic grows unabated: the...

01.12.2024 10

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On the path to self-destruct

As the lack of civic sense deprives the citizens of living a healthy social life, the unrestrained use of cyberspace would create e-hazards for the...

24.11.2024 2

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Living with ambivalence

During the heydays of PTV, Ashfaq Ahmad's cryptic and symbolic plays were a real cerebral treat for the viewers. One such play parturient with...

17.11.2024 10

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Digital sabbath is needed for self-discovery

Standing in the eye of the storm of technology, man today faces at every moment the interplay between his self and technology. Interestingly, the...

10.11.2024 4

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High time to invoke Aristophanes

When Aristophanes, the patron saint of punctuation, was the head librarian at Alexandria's main library, writing was a mess. Those third-century...

03.11.2024 2

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Agree-culture

On an official visit to an educational institution, the official encouraged students to ask him any question regarding their studies and stay at...

27.10.2024 2

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The pandemic of cognitive dissonance

The Penguine Dictionary of Psychology defines cognitive dissonance (CD) as "an emotional state set up when two simultaneously held attitudes or...

20.10.2024 2

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Testing times for the postal service

Every year on October 9, World Post Day is observed globally to highlight the importance of writing letters and postal service. However, gone are...

13.10.2024 3

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May the print live long!

"New is not always better, despite the hype," warns Manos Antoninis, the Director of the UNESCO'S Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report since...

06.10.2024 3

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Poor is he who has no dreams

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. - Oscar Wilde   This quote opens up a perennial debate in literary circles: art owes to the...

29.09.2024 1

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Certainty of uncertainty and uncertainty of certainty

"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is," wrote mathematician John Allen Paulos. "Knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security." In...

23.09.2024 1

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Ogling is antisocial

O Prophet! Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their chastity. That is purer for them.—Al-Quran: (24:30)   Ogling and staring at...

15.09.2024 2

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Manipulative tactics of social media

Things that are assigned monetary value more than social, cultural, ethical or ideological value prove deleterious sooner or later for the...

09.09.2024 1

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Misguided philanthropy

The nouveau riche scions of a family business consulted this scribe to know what aspect of life of the poor needs the philanthropic support the...

02.09.2024 1

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National interest and drought of leadership

The political scenario in Pakistan is becoming worse day by day. Political parties, nay, factions or sects, strut the political landscape as...

26.08.2024 50

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Pygmalion Effect vs Golem Effect

When we expect certain behaviours of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behaviour more likely to occur. —Robert Rosenthal...

19.08.2024 4

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Factors affecting sports culture

Though all the books of English and Urdu composition are replete with essays on the importance of sports in the lives of individuals and nations,...

12.08.2024 10

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Our research milieu versus urgency of problems

Our education system’s labyrinthine complexity and misplaced priorities — that necessitate only the completion of the task and bear no constructive...

05.08.2024 1

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Universality of Imam Hussain

The martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) in the Battle of Karbala stands for the resistant spirit of Islam against oppression, injustice, and misuse of...

22.07.2024 30

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Cherry-picked insularity

Videos and pictures showing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte leaving the prime minister office on bicycle after serving the country for fourteen...

15.07.2024 5

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