Spectacle over substance

Among the misuses of technology, one is its use for publicity stunts and self-advertising gimmicks. People who are the anthropomorphic expressions of...

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Long goodbye of the printed word

On every World News Day (September 28), amid the loud calls to celebrate journalism, the death knell tolls even louder for the print format of...

30.09.2025 20

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Darkness after light

Money matters whether you matter or not. Its manipulative powers matter the most, particularly when it is not your sweat-stained money. The...

23.09.2025 20

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Faith-neutral approach to education

Some high-achieving students suddenly began arriving late to school. They were warned, fined, and reported to parents. Nonetheless, their newly...

16.09.2025 40

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Tourism and zero-waste journey

Very rarely do we have waste problems; we have creative thinking problems.Kathryn Kellogg The policy of zero waste simply means that human...

10.09.2025 60

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Creeping normality

Rafta rafta wo meri hasti ka sama'n ho gaye Pehle jaa'n, phhir jan-e jaa'n, phhir jaan-e jaana'n ho gye You must be humming this song the moment you...

02.09.2025 30

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Ethics of power

Indiscriminate employment of power and force, aslosh with egoism, vendetta or propaganda, fails to attain anything constructive. Power and force play...

26.08.2025 40

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From zombies to learners

It's a common observation of teachers that often, when a teacher asks a student to repeat what he has taught the class, the student stands blacked...

19.08.2025 60

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Lessons between the lines of life

Life often reveals its profound spiritual truths in the most ordinary moments. One day, I was at a stationery shop waiting for the shopkeeper's...

12.08.2025 20

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Frailty, thy name is marriage now

Matrimonial relationships have never been more fragile despite being morally bound and legally secured. The two parties in the relationship, sometimes...

05.08.2025 100

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Knowledge, imagination, morality

It always feels so good to listen to students' questions during an informal discussion. In such an environment, I have found students speaking their...

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Every man now an island

The tragic deaths of two showbiz celebrities, Ayesha Khan and Humaira Asghar, gone unnoticed for days in one case and months in the other, have...

22.07.2025 60

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Gregor Samsa in Pakistan

As Gregor Samsa — taking liberties with the character of Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis — awoke one morning, the morning for him wasn't...

15.07.2025 30

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Age of ill-founded generalisations

We are living in a world of ill-founded generalisations. Generalisations are our judgemental, aphoristic and summarised assessments of people or...

30.06.2025 40

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PTMs: student perspective

Out of the troika – parents, teachers and students – of the education of a child, I have already written on the roles and rights of parents and...

24.06.2025 20

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Laughter is strictly prohibited?

The first synonymous idea of school that comes to mind is a place of strict discipline. All the moral policing at the early stages of the growth of a...

17.06.2025 90

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The Greater Bairam: a festival of inclusivity

Consequentialism is defined as "the ethical study of morals, duties and rights with an approach that focuses consequences of a particular action or...

03.06.2025 20

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Teaching expression to young learners

It is heartening that a positive shift from quantity to quality is observed in our educational institutions. Some schools have started allocating...

20.05.2025 80

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Distortion of truth — a strategic target

To mention love side by side with war in the maxim, "everything is fair in love and war", sounds oxymoronically antithetical. My extrapolation of the...

13.05.2025 50

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Credibility of world bodies at stake

The UN is crippled systemically through the systematic use in the Security Council of the veto powers resting with the five economic powers of the...

06.05.2025 30

M Nadeem Nadir

War and human civilisation: a moral paradox

The question might sound naive to bellicists, yet it is pertinent in this age of admirable human development and scientific advancements around the...

29.04.2025 50

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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 9

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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 3

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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...

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