Digital Desis or Giant Managers?

Under the cover of the InfoTech explosion India has also precipitated another less recognized revolution. It is slowly but steadily taking over the managerial and

OPEN for Business

An introduction to OPEN, the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs

Temptations and Free Will

Do you like to throw temptations as challenges at yourself

Umair.com: An Interview

Chowk’s co-founder talks about entrepreneurship, parenting, and Chowk in ten years

The Myth of Growth:Pakistan's Lost Opportunity

Rewind to 11 Sept 2001. One Trillion Rupees flow into Pakistan from out of the blue...And the festive season continues. The urban rich can buy

IT Pie in the Sky?

And the beauty is that it seems to be working. Word is out, learn computers, or perish

The Last Institutionist: John Kenneth Galbraith

It is strange that economists, academics and writers are still using the terms ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ as if they were some pure breeds forgetting the

Science Is A Dead End Career

The love affair between society and nerds, which peaked during the days of Einstein and Oppenheimer, is apparently over

Fake Encounters

Once Charlie Chaplin went to a fancy dress party where the invitees had to come dressed as Chaplin. Chaplin got the third prize, beaten by

Interest is Halal?

Halal Interest. Oxymoron?

Why Forex Reserves?

The Leveling of America

Friedman shows us how the world became flat and isolates ten flatteners of the world. The flatteners range from computer technology to changing political ideology.

Media Spin and the Hidden Poverty in America

The mainstream media instead of being outraged at why 37 million Americans are poor and chronically hungry in one of the wealthiest countries of the

Why Doxiadis Cries for Islamabad

A planned capital sinks through the neglect of its basic infrastructure at the cost of new wasteful projects

A Column of Ants

There is crack in the wall a little below the window...

Int'l Donors and Local Partners Need Fundamental Change

Advices to INGO/donors on what kind of relationship they should have to turn their presence into someting worth