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Cloud cuckoo land

Cloud cuckoo land

Four years of a vindictive presidency can be daunting.

30.01.2025 40

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Shahzad Sharjeel

Peanut gallery

One of Chakwal’s most famous sons was born in a small village named Gah.

11.01.2025 60

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Pardon the poultry

SURPRISINGLY, while we have cherry-picked parts of globalisation like Black Friday sales and Valentine’s Day celebrations, we have yet to get on to...

30.12.2024 10

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Cookie crumbles

ONE did not know how, but there was a feeling in the throes of the Berlin Wall’s fall and the right’s celebration of the Soviet Union’s demise that...

13.12.2024 10

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Requiem for whom?

ONE question that always bothers me is: who is the big brain that this part of the world has produced? As if defining the criteria were not...

29.11.2024 5

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Black Water

THE Trump victory in the recent US election has brought the subject of immigration under even greater focus. Along with forced displacements caused...

17.11.2024 3

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BRICS & Stone Age

MUKESH Ambani, of the unending wedding ceremonies fame, recently enlightened Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the Sanskrit meaning of his company’s...

31.10.2024 2

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‘Here, take this’

THE provenance of the gesture, ‘lanat’, can be traced back to ancient Greece. That the moutza or faskeloma, a gesture of disgust and condemnation,...

15.10.2024 10

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Maulana vs Mevlana

WITHOUT going into the debate of who the honorific can be bestowed upon, let us focus on the etymology of the root word ‘maula’. In Arabic, it...

28.09.2024 6

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Debatable debate

IS leadership about oratory, rabble-rousing, long marches, or dharna in our context? Although political campaigns worldwide rely on debating...

19.09.2024 2

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Heroes & villains

THE worst feeling in the world is self-doubt, the feeling that one’s firm beliefs may have been misplaced, that the ‘other’ we loved to detest may...

03.08.2024 3

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