Month: March 2024
Breaking Down Barriers to Women’s Land Rights Starts in Our Homes
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1990s, I became a landowner for the first time in…
Monday Poem: “Damn!” By César A Gonzalez
Sometimes he’d be washing the car. . . all by himselfand he’d say, “Damn!”or sweeping…
Demystifying China
Maleeha Lodhi at Dawn: Western paranoia about China is frequently reflected in the Western media….
Some of the Greatest Scientific Hoaxes
Eleanor Harris in New Scientist: The history of science is replete with frauds and fakers –…
Aankhon Ko Visa Nahi Lagta By Gulzar
Blast from the past: Gulzar pens a beautiful ode to Mehdi Hasan, and remembers Ahmed…
Maniza Naqvi on Saving Karachi’s Oldest Bookstore
Maniza Naqvi at Literary Hub: Back in December 2016, I was sitting in my office…
The Public Sector Will Look Very Different in the Next Several Years
Demographic shifts will shape tomorrow’s public sector as the global population is aging, and Gen…
‘Organising is the Best Kind of Antidepressant’
The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits…
Does AI Understand Things?
Have Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrated “theory of mind”?; Do LLM representations map onto the…
Parties and Movements
A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world. Sheri…
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most…
Afghanistan: Broad Strokes and Canvases
Irshad Salim: Over the years, paints, brushes, the pellet knife and canvases substituted my textual…