Feature / Analysis

T20 09 12

It is time for the World T20 again and the countdown has begun. Most of the teams have started preparing with bilateral series. There will be some warm up games before the tournament officially kicks off in Sri Lanka on the 18th of September 2012 with Sri Lanka squaring up against Zimbabwe. It is a...

Why aren’t you Married Yet?

To be born without a Y chromosome brings lots of complications and issues. We live in a world in which women have come very far invarious fields but still old age traditions often tend to be setbacks for them. Marriage is not just something required to survive personally and socially but being Musli...

Video Games Demonising Our Children!

Can you really call them games, the kind my son loves to play all the time? And despite being a pacifist by nature and sweet as an angel, he seems to relish playing those violent video games on his Sony PlayStation. Most games involve chasing and bashing up of the baddies. And since most games origi...

Rishi Kapoor – Forever young

In the four decades that he has been around, Rishi Kapoor’s success has been his biggest failure. For someone who got a National Award for his first film appearance as a child artist in Mera Naam Joker (1970) and followed it up with a Filmfare Best Actor nod with his first adult role in Bobby (1973)...

Cram schools boom widens India’s class divide

KOTA, India: With a sprawling five-acre campus, 10,000 students and state-of-the-art LCD projectors in its lecture rooms, Bansal Classes is bigger and slicker than most schools in India.But the institution, now a landmark in Kota, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, is neither a school nor a co...

Tourists are back in Swat

MINGORA: Starting from Eid-ul-Fitr over 300,000 tourists from across the country has so far visited Swat Valley.Confirming this, officials and residents said that during this time not a single act of violence took place in Swat valley, which is known for its archaeological sites of Gandhara civiliza...

Photographic display of culture and landscape

LAHORE: Highlighting culture, people and the landscape of Pakistan, two art exhibitions opened here on at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall.Both art shows simultaneously opened in two separate galleries located at Alhamra. A number of art lovers, students from different art institutions, painters and oth...

India-Pakistan equation

AMIDST the constant inflow of disturbing news from the Af-Pak theatre, we have one positive to point to: the thaw in India-Pakistan relations.Ever since India re-engaged in dialogue over two years ago, significant headway has been made on various issues — principally trade and investment. The weeken...

Who defines obscenity?

PEMRA’S ongoing quest, initiated at the Supreme Court’s behest, to define ‘obscenity’ for the purposes of media monitoring is ludicrous. The electronic media regulatory authority had initially demonstrated great sagacity in barring television channels from broadcasting ‘obscene material’ without spe...

Seven long decades

For whom the bell tollsThe 16th day of April 1853 is special in the Indian history. The day was a public holiday. At 3:30 pm, as the 21 guns roared together, the first train carrying Lady Falkland, wife of Governor of Bombay, along with 400 special invitees, steamed off from Bombay to Thane.Ever sin...

An unposted letter to PM Singh

Dear Mr. Singh,I have never before addressed a person of your stature so do forgive me for my casual style of speech. Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to you and your government for considering over 900 Pakistani Hindu citizens eligible for Indian nationality. It is a great gesture inde...

Apology for murder – too little, too late

German pharmaceutical company “Chemie Gruenenthal” last week apologized to mothers who took the company’s morning sickness medicine called Thalidomide in the 1950s and 1960s and gave birth to children with congenital birth defects. Exactly 50 years ago, Thalidomide was pulled off the market.Thalidom...

Tear down this wall of hatred

Sixty-five years ago, India was divided into two countries, Pakistan and India. It was a decision taken by an ageing empire, in its season of decline. World War II had broken the financial back of British Empire.United India had been destabilized due to widespread support for Subhas Chandra Bose’s ‘...

At Universities, Fracking Research Funded by Oil and Gas Companies

Critics question the legitimacy of industry-funded ‘frackademia.’ Critics are calling it "frackademia"—the nexus between academia and companies with a stake in "fracking," the controversial method of extracting gas and oil from shales.The University of Texas at Austin, for example, endured a major ...

Trout will become extinct in the Iberian Peninsula in less than 100 years

Climate change, pollution, the extraction of water for irrigation and overfishing all threaten the survival of the common trout. This fish is very sensitive to changes in its environment and, according to the Spanish study; its habitat will have reduced by half by the year 2040 and will have complet...

Harvard Says 125 Students May Have Cheated on a Final Exam

CAMBRIDGE, Mass: Harvard University revealed Thursday what could be its largest cheating scandal in memory, saying that about 125 students might have worked in groups on a take-home final exam despite being explicitly required to work alone.The accusations, related to a single undergraduate class in...

UK's Prince Harry deployed to Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan: Prince Harry arrived in Afghanistan on Friday on a four-month military deployment in his role as an Apache helicopter pilot, Britain's Ministry of Defense said. Harry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and third in line to the British throne, is a captain in Britain's Army Air...

Isn’t Being Bad Good?

The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n. Why one has to struggle to come up to the ideals of goodness every single day? If being good comes so natural to us, than why when half the time we do the bad things we’re cursed and condemned for it? The eternal st...

The Drama Known as Bank

Every person has a place that he secretly loves to hate at all times. Some don’t like to go shopping, some don’t want to visit theatre and many hate going out at all, for no obvious reasons. But I hate going to the bank any day of the year, and I have some very valid reasons! Unlike many people, I o...

Dubai- a Better Home than Karachi?

I am in UAE these days. Just for a week. On vacations. I don’t have a life here; I don’t have a job hence I don’t have anything productive to do. I don’t have friends. I don’t really know the places so I don’t travel alone. I practically have no control in this country. Yet… I feel alive. I am happy...

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