Articles with tag: GRE
Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 28, 2008 interacts: 130Student politics in Pakistan has had a history of mixed fortunes and shades. Though extremely tumultuous, it is also a history of rich democratic traditions.
The Landlady
Tahera Sajid Jan 2, 2008 interacts: 12Why do we exercise our right to hate so much more often than the right to love, anyway?
6th December 1992
M B Qasmi Dec 5, 2007 interacts: 86A turning point in Hindu Muslim relations in the post independence Indian history. It was a moment when all truths about religious coexistence suddenly proved false.
Communists and the Making of Pakistan
Yasser Latif Hamdani Oct 7, 2007 interacts: 117History of the last years of Punjab under the Raj
A Wand or a Yardstick
Emma Alam Sep 16, 2007 interacts: 7By introducing NTS entry test Pakistan's education system has borrowed a fragment from foreign education system rather taking whole infrastructure, students devoid of analytical approach at elementary and secondary school level cannot solve riddles overn
Blinkered Vision: Unravelling the Nuclear Debate
Anand Patwardhan Oct 11, 2007 interacts: 34Why is the 'US India Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement' called 123? The answer lies in the US Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Article 123 of the act governs US 'Cooperation with other countries'.
Affordable UK Degrees
Ed Halifax Jul 25, 2007 interacts: 14International students who want to study for degrees that are recognized and accepted worldwide could find private colleges’ fees well within their budgets.
Ellada: 3 Weeks in Northeastern Aegean Islands
Feroz Qutabshahi Aug 15, 2007 interacts: 33We alternate our summer vacations between Pakistan and Greece, visiting places of history and intrigue. '07 was a Greece year.
A New US Vision?
Moeed Pirzada Aug 8, 2007 interacts: 20The US Congressional bill designed to implement the '9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007' contains the seeds of new thinking on Pakistan.
Science and the Islamic world --- The quest for rapprochement
Pervez Hoodbhoy Aug 2, 2007 interacts: 624With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge?
US Immigration Reform unfair to the legal high-skilled
Shiraz Bashir Jun 12, 2007 interacts: 4A Merit-based system which has been proposed by the US Senate has been widely criticized for allegedly favoring skilled individuals. A review actually reveals it being skewed the other way!
Is New Brunswick Ready for Emigration?
Mansoor Faridi Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 6Current employment climate is not very conducive to attract international students and persuade graduates to stay back.
J&K: The Hopes and Despairs of the Peace Process
Zafar Choudhary Feb 8, 2007 interacts: 20It has taken pretty seven long years to reach a point of hope. Therefore, the current year is really most significant for Jammu and Kashmir and it has to be keenly watched how things unfold.
A Strike Against Strike
Nadeem F Paracha Dec 26, 2006 interacts: 14What is one reminded of when he or she sees things like unattended garbage dumps, blackened billboards, burning buses and broken windowpanes? Things more frequently witnessed during strikes.
Click!!
Adam Khan Oct 17, 2006 interacts: 40He was in the mosque that he had built and Amir Liaquat Hussain was leading the prayer – strangely, they were the only two people there. As soon as Amir said the final salam, Arsalan heard footsteps behind him. It was Aishwariya...
Industrial Food
Saima Shah Oct 2, 2006 interacts: 39Industrial Food is not just about food production, but also about globalization. Multinational corporations affect food production all over the world. Food has been contaminated all over the world with synthetic chemicals
The Gardens
Tabinda Bashir Sep 28, 2006 interacts: 5I was mostly quiet as we made small talk. Salima was giving me time to reminisce and absorb that day’s memories for when I would need them most. In America.
Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?
Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years
Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines
Farzana Versey May 3, 2006 interacts: 204Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra
Ba, Beti aur Bahu
Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?
US-India Relations in Danger After an Attempt on the President's life!
Amir A Husain Feb 27, 2006 interacts: 11So news is that Bush Mian may visit cricket games on his tour to India and Pakistan - what if - just what if the following were true?
Gurgaon Past and Present
indra chopra Jun 24, 2005 interacts: 15The original Gurgaon residents continue to shop at sector markets, look at the three M’s i.e. malls, multiplexes and multi-cuisine as encroachers
India Through Pakistani Eyes
Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 16, 2005 interacts: 625Is India now set to become a science juggernaut, a leader of the coming 'Asian Century'? A nascent superpower of the East?
Avant-garde Pakistani Women
Zainab Mahmood Jan 24, 2005 interacts: 17She is the young, single, career woman in Pakistan today. Living at home, establishing her career, with no excess baggage. But it’s never that simple. After speaking to a wide array of women, from diverse backgrounds, I learnt about where they were
Proud to be a Pakistani?
Ahmed Sadozai Dec 8, 2004 interacts: 258Our leaders sitting in their big houses, driving their big cars...do not seem to bother as to what the future holds for ambitious students like myself who are made to stand at the end of the line at every job opportunity around the world because of the kn
A Shameless Polemic Against the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty
Ashish Sharma Mar 3, 2004 interacts: 98One of the most pathetic sights in India today is to watch various Congress party officials beating their breasts over secularism and the rise of Hindu nationalism.
Chiragh e Sehri
Temporal Feb 5, 2004 interacts: 22What is written on paper can be altered. What is written in fate only gods can change.
A Waste of National Resource
Feroz R Khan Jan 28, 2004 interacts: 127Currently, there are two distinct educational systems in Pakistan. One is based on the government of Pakistan’s state funded educational institutions and modern curricula and other one is based on the centuries old system of madarassas’ religi
A Strip of Road, a Bulb of Light, a Bucketful of Water
Harish Nambiar Dec 15, 2003 interacts: 28We are getting reported in the US as “women are moving up in India” even in the notoriously backward and casteist cowbelt. This might be seen as good omen, the external push to internal determination for aspirants of mud and thatch paradises.
The 20 best local pop albums … ever!
Nadeem F Paracha Dec 9, 2003 interacts: 46The production and creative qualities of VS:2 have helped it to sound as modern as anything done with the help of far more advanced recording facilities today, even after twelve years when it was first released.
Free Thought is Key to Progress
Mohammad Gill Sep 28, 2003 interacts: 65Aazadi-e-afkar sey haiy unn ki tabahi, Rakhtay naheen jo fikr-o-tadabbar ka saleeq
(If a person is forbidden from indulging in free thought, how he can acquire the skills and the right attitude for free thinking)
Development of Steel Sector
Muhammad A Niazi Aug 27, 2003 interacts: 4the feasible steel-making projects based on Kalabagh and Nokkundi iron ores have been shelved, and the Pakistan Steel based on imported iron ore will be expanded
The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses
Subroto Roy Dec 28, 2002 interacts: 33Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art
Her Other Self
Jawahara Saidullah Nov 1, 1999 interacts: 12Why did she wake up in nightmarish sweats chased by dark fears?
