Articles with tag: change

The Peacock Moments

kashkin dabruski Jul 3, 2008 interacts: 8

Hope cannot be lost or forgotten
Carry they will these droplets of rain
Change will arrive, peace will reside
The old effect, the peacock moments!

Yet Another Immigrant Story

Madiha Qureshi Jul 2, 2008 interacts: 71

I arrived in the US about eight months ago, to get married in Houston and move to Maryland, where I live now. My last visit had been less than a year ago, during which I met my husband.

Who Moved My Cheese

Saima Shah Jun 2, 2008 interacts: 87

Mr Gore wasn’t afraid of looking foolish, he’d take his presentation wherever people would listen. His persistence ended up creating a climate of global acceptance of global warming.

Of No Importance

kashkin dabruski Oct 21, 2007 interacts: 4

I need to move,
To some other place
Away from all this mayhem

Media: A Catalyst for Social and Political Change

Mazhar Mazhar Oct 19, 2007 interacts: 22

Media should connect the public spirit of politics by encouraging the people’s participation in political decisions.

Fall

Saima Shah Sep 27, 2007 interacts: 7

Do I really have to?
Watch
The slow unwinding of leaves
As they fall ever so slowly from the branches
that nurtured them

Local Knowledge, Capital, and Social Change in the Age of Globalization

Rohit Chopra Sep 20, 2007 interacts: 3

Whether it is selling vegetables or tourism, the local agent does not, by definition, possess anything that cannot be brought from elsewhere in the globe.

Suo Motu Action Against Corrupt Stock Brokers of KSE

Zoya Khan Aug 22, 2007 interacts: 10

Investors lost more than $13 billion in stock market crash of March 2005. 88 stock brokers of KSE were found responsible but no action has been taken.

The Worst Form of Banality

ahmad hayat Feb 14, 2007 interacts: 9

Even the ferocity of a European winter could not help me not breaking a cold sweat. 'Super-natural' or 'psychic-connections' or 'ethereal-linkings' or 'telepathic-bullshit'...I believe in none of them, at least until a month ago.

Sissy Fascists

Nadeem F Paracha Oct 17, 2006 interacts: 47

“Now I get it! If this is how our pop stars are thinking, I find myself to be wasting my time asking them to use there art for social and political causes. Of course you will never use your star status to talk about the Hudood Ordinance, now would y

Sufi or Scientist

M A Shah Jun 27, 2006 interacts: 8

Have you ever thought what it would cost to give up everything you own right now and move to a different place with nothing in your hand and start a new life?

Deforestation and Drought

Arshad Abbasi Jun 6, 2006 interacts: 6

Massive deforestation started in the 1990s. Between 1990 and 2000 Pakistan lost an average of 41,100 hectares of forest per year with an average annual deforestation rate of 1.63 per cent. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate increased to 2.02 per cent per ann

Ch-ch-changes

Jawahara Saidullah Jan 10, 2006 interacts: 15

Change, is after all, the only true constant in life. The way we look changes, from our waistlines to our skin to our thinning hair

Jerry’s Pakistan

Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 16, 2005 interacts: 522

The jazba that there is for Pakistan seems to be entirely in the non-Muslim Pakistanis and they have a much better way of showing it too. No law-breaking, no gunfire, no silencer-less motorcycles, no women-teasing as has become commonplace on Independence

Ban on Play Mr. Jinnah

arvind gaur Jul 5, 2005 interacts: 181

If you feel that you have got the hatred for Pakistan as a heritage and do not want to pass on this hatred to the next generations...what we need today is to revisit history and forgive and forget and carry on as good neighbours then read on.

Erica

manu mohandas Jun 5, 2005 interacts: 19

Her morals were of the highest standards and she always stood for values like truth and justice. She resolved issues with wisdom and pretty soon her stance on issues were valued and respected by people everywhere.

Jared Diamond’s latest book Collapse

Aniruddha Bahal Jan 31, 2005 interacts: 8

Explores the collapse of ancient civilizations and at the same time gives us insights into Rwanda’s 1990s genocide, China’s burgeoning environmental problems, Australia’s mining industry, and winds it all up with analyses of why societie

john over george: george over john

Temporal Nov 2, 2004 interacts: 8

ram das and allah ditta go about their chores
as if there was no tuesday in their lives
sweating, scheming, squandering through their day
dreaming of daal-roti sustenance

Welcome to the 21st Century

Sameena Iqbal Jul 14, 2004 interacts: 20

All they did was bark restrictions at them and not let them be normal just like everyone else at school.

Bharat Builders - A One Act Play

Udayakumar Sep 1, 1999 interacts: 6

As the people of Bharat flee for their lives, the monkeys’ pursue them with greater vigor

Evaporation Drops the Temperature

Bilal Musharraf Jul 28, 1999 interacts: 23

More than a brain drain, the migration and isolation of Pakistani professionals abroad, lowers the chances of Pakistan to evolve