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…