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Shahzad SharjeelDawn |
Four years of a vindictive presidency can be daunting.
One of Chakwal’s most famous sons was born in a small village named Gah.
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...
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...
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...
THE Trump victory in the recent US election has brought the subject of immigration under even greater focus. Along with forced displacements caused...
MUKESH Ambani, of the unending wedding ceremonies fame, recently enlightened Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the Sanskrit meaning of his company’s...
THE provenance of the gesture, ‘lanat’, can be traced back to ancient Greece. That the moutza or faskeloma, a gesture of disgust and condemnation,...
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...
IS leadership about oratory, rabble-rousing, long marches, or dharna in our context? Although political campaigns worldwide rely on debating...
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...