Khalid Saleem

THE world is full of mugs – of more varieties than one! One would allude at this time simply to the ones in which one…

COMING upon one of those billboards that blight the skyline of the Capital of this blessed land, one learnt to one’s horror that a certain…

THESE days of confusion in the world at large one just cannot decide what to hold on to. One subject that thrusts itself on one’s…

One often comes across pieces in the media of the Third World stressing the fact that several developing countries are ‘youth-heavy’, in that young people…

EFFORTS have been on for some time, it would appear, to ‘humanis the computer’. One would have thought that, as things stand, the influence of…

THERE are two other buzzwords that continue to cadge the headlines. These are ‘corruption’ and ‘accountability’. Open any newspaper and these two are always there…

NOT so very long ago, the Harry Potter mania had become something of a phenomenon. Hats off to Ms. Rowling for the way she veered…

IT may be time to do a bit of introspection. A good look over the shoulder in times like the present can do a lot…

THE re-organizing of our diplomatic representation abroad is in the news of late. Coming at a time when the world is reeling from the Corona-Virus…

ONE thing that the corona-virus Pandemic has brought in its wake is the realisation that nature abhors inequality. The Pandemic does appear to have brought…