Tag: class

Soon after toppling the second Nawaz Sharif government in October 1999 in a military coup, General Parvez Musharraf posed for ...

Educational institutions are looked upon as the gateway to a child’s future, a place where they can be groomed in ...

Remember your adolescence? Do you recall how often we would be (oh so) morbidly preoccupied with how we appeared to ...

During the Fall 2022 semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course titled “The World of Islam,” taught by ...

Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists ...

Recent developments in the history of Gordon College, Rawalpindi, are, indeed, extremely ominous: not only for the students of the ...

Nietzsche’s Hammer  Those who romanticise irrationality are convinced that rationality works best when driven by ‘evil’ intentions. To anti-rationalists, passion ...

Sara Danial: Let’s first talk about your book, The Begum and the Dastan. How difficult was documenting the lives of ...

In 2008, sometime in July in the monsoon weather, I was out of money for the month and my salary ...

According to the political scientists Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, the psychology of voters has remained mysterious and perplexing for ...

In 2008, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after almost seven years of exile. He found out that he was as ...

It has been observed a number of times around the world that being from a dynasty or belonging to a ...

Consumerism, or the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods, largely emerged from the 19th century onwards. It ...

Pakistan’s regional languages have a rich literary heritage, producing some towering poets whose verses depict sentiments and idioms of the ...

There were many who were shocked after witnessing a barrage of hateful posts and tweets when Malala was shot and ...

This article presents a political economy explanation of ongoing institutional recalibrations in Pakistan. In particular, it critically scrutinises the notion ...

At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, people across the world were forced to rethink the way in which they conducted ...

The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party. Big tent parties absorb members from various diverse (and even ...

The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women has announced that the award for 2021 goes to writer Alia Ahmed ...

In this article, I would like to weave my writings for newspapers with a bit of my personal story of ...

In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t ...