A few days ago, I was talking to a very old friend of mine. He had recently been working in an advertising agency focused on high-end consumer brands. On discussing how his work was coming along he expressed a great satisfaction, however he was upset with his most recent project. So I asked him;
“What don’t [...]
Last year August there had been a huge rumpus associated with an all girls’ private school.
It created a wave of condemnation by some religious high ups, and the Urdu press ostensibly had a field day in belittling the school, its teachers and the policies.
One would ask what was the grave crime committed by this school. [...]
I have written extensively about the nature of our elite based politics, and social system. However analysis needs to be understood in terms of the changing social structure. The changing social construction is juxtaposed to the stationary one. I shall discuss both forms of this structure in this essay, and link it to the apolitical [...]
It is human nature to believe the most unexpected, fantastical, earth-shattering tales, which govern our daily lives. Perhaps the hunger for such dazzling information is the utter boredom our previously luminous city and country had to offer.
One such trend in our society is the present barrage of theories looking to explain the evidence-less cases, in [...]
A few days ago I had a discussion with one of my colleagues about the television culture in our country. We were reminiscing the good old days where there was only one state channel, which tried to fit in various programs in its transmission schedule, these different programs related to various classes, and age divisions. [...]
There has been a recurring debate in last week’s papers about the power of language in shaping the trends and environment in a nation. Renowned linguistic science professor, Tariq Rehman explained the permeation of English in our society, he used the example of call centers.
He has explained the relevance of shaping employee ideas and thoughts [...]
It is not very surprising that in today’s time when we speak about the leftist movements in Pakistan, either the general public is oblivious to it, or strictly condemns such behavior, terming it anti-development.
It is perhaps very important to understand, that leftist movements have in the past been a very strong force in the development [...]
In most developing societies, the primary institution which helps in social change is most often believed to be the state. It is often believed that the state is responsible in creating and harnessing the feelings and ideas of the masses. This might be true in some cases, however as record shows us, social change in [...]
About two weeks ago I got in to an intense argument with a few friends over dinner, the nature of the argument was the much-discussed current economic and political issues facing Pakistan.
it all started with me describing the last few years ruled by the army as ”disastrous” in all aspects. It was not surprising to [...]
