Mir Taqi Mir on Poverty | میر تقی میر غربت پر
پاکستان کے نامور شاعر اور دانشور ایک مثال دیتے ہیں کہ شاعری کس طرح ایک سوچ کو سمیٹ سکتی ہے
An Ancient Warning on the Power and Peril of Rhetoric
John C Brady: In his dialogue Gorgias, Plato drafts a fictional conversation between Socrates and a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and teachers known as sophists, who were famed for their
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Binaca Geetmala’s Golden Voice Ameen Sayani
Ameen Sayani, 91, who achieved fame and popularity all across the Subcontinent, and became a household name with his signature ‘Behno aur Bhaiyo’ greeting while hosting the iconic radio program
One Nation Under Guns
How Gun Culture Distorts America’s History and Threatens Its Democracy. Book By Dominic Erdozain This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun
Mind-reading Devices are Revealing the Brain’s Secrets
Miryam Naddaf in Nature: Moving a prosthetic arm. Controlling a speaking avatar. Typing at speed. These are all things that people with paralysis have learnt to do using brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) —
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Teamwork
Irshad Salim: There is no “I” in the spelling of “team”… Teamwork makes the work easier: It can be creative, destructive though; If I’m not mistaken, there’s an “I” in
What is Leadership
Leadership is a set of behaviors used to help people align their collective direction, to execute strategic plans, and to continually renew… Excerpt from a McKinsey article: All leaders, to
Hatred Alone is Immortal
Why we should be concerned, above all, with the education of the passions. Alan Jacobs in The Hedgehog Review: Recently I happened to read, in the course of a single
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
William Deresiewicz in Salmagundi: Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A
Pakistan Needs a Plan
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Pakistan is a vast country of 231.4 million people. It’s one of only nine countries in the world with nuclear weapons. It’s located in South Asia,
How Much Does the UN Really Cost?
UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq answers common questions about the UN’s budget, including how the UN gets its money, how it prevents fraud and waste, what is spent on humanitarian operations,
Is the State Here to Stay?
Jonathan S. Blake in Boston Review: In early 2022, the Economist decried “governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism.” The state was “becoming bossier” and “more meddlesome,” it complained. In fact, the state’s punitive