Author: DPstaff

PICS: Kashmir’s Rare Snowless Winter

Auqib Javeed writes on BBC website: This year, things are different: the snow-clad mountains in…

Six Books You Didn’t Know Were Propaganda

The Economist on these books: ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but…

Feeding the World in 21st Century: ‘Cities Like Forests’

A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi,…

Sham Elections

Faisal Siddiqi writes in Dawn: Symbols as the soul of elections: A 12-member bench of…

Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard

Carole Hooven in The Free Press: Since early December, the end of my 20-year career…

The Mathematician Who Finds Poetry in Math and Math in Poetry

Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways…

Lenin: What’s Left of the Revolutionary a Century after his Demise?

Mahir Ali in Dawn: AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel,…

Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?

By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing…

OPINION: Israel Is On Its Way To Becoming a Dictatorship

Usually when we think of a coup, we think of that kind. But there is…

Pakistan releases 22-yr record of Toshakhana gifts. Many exposed as details surface.

Recipients list show Nawaz, Zardari took bulletproof vehicles, Khan retained watches. As per the documents,…

COMMENTS: China Brokers Rapprochement Between Iran, Saudi Arabia

Mushtaq Siddiqui, intl. media veteran in ISB: The US has been checkmated and challenged in…

Mar 2023 News of Interest -as the World Turns

Hijab made mandatory for women teachers, students in AJK…Sindh High Court rejects plea to ban…