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A disjointed lot FOLLOWING the Second World War when Great Britain and other colonial powers were forced under great economic pressures and growing mood of defiance to relinquish control of their colonies, there emerged a number of new states on the globe....		A nation pitted against itself BARRISTER Aitzaz Ahsan believes the establishment has played a dirty trick with the nation, leaving it a confused mass rather than a nation proud of itself. Discrediting our roots is no service to the nation, says Aitzaz....
Perspective of the dying QAMAR House, constructed more than four decades ago, was once considered the tallest building in Karachi. It stands in front of the imposing Karachi Port Trust building in the proximity of Keamari Bridge. The owners of Qamar House do not have an authentic record of the young and old men and women...		Love knows no drought A COUPLE of months ago, a few kilometres from the Pakistan-India border in Nagarparkar taluka in Sindh’s arid Tharparkar region, seen from the sand-track between the villages of Oan and...
Positioning is the key to strategic marketing THE key to marketing success is simple. Find the right message, use the right media and deliver it to the right market. These are the initial lessons that everybody learns in the field of marketing in order to get things done right and move them ahead. Professionals learn from their experiences and apply...		A national fiasco NAWAZ Sharif found himself under tremendous threat during his second tenure as prime minister for sporting his own style of politics. The country’s powerful establishment was unhappy because it thought....
Some smart home tips I’LL admit that I was never a housekeeping freak; it’s something that evolved as did a lifestyle that compelled this interest be born and bred. And then there was the revelation...		The gathering storm ALAO means “to burn” and gherao means “to surround.” In the politics of the subcontinent, these words are commands, battle cries, and, in a way, a kind of thrashing out. They...
Marriage of a different kind VILLAGE elders, their heads together, intensely discuss and go on to decide arrangements for a unique ‘marriage’ ceremony. The task in hand is to choose a male piece and a female piece of ice. Their decisions set...		Bad medicine RECENTLY, newspapers reported Maryum Begum’s death who had come to Karachi for a routine gall bladder removal surgery, but met her final fate because of the carelessness of the health staff. A sponge was left in her abdomen during surgery that later...
Achievement unlimited IMAGINE a world that is monotone and pitch black. You have to find your way through a medley of unfamiliar sounds. Your dreams are simply dark, auditory structures bearing no shape...		Light and classical THUMRI is one of the most important genres of contemporary classical music. It is supposed to be a form falling into the light classical music category because it is less rigid and austere in its use of melodic...
The role of emotions SO FAR it was the domain of psychologists to study and investigate the impact of emotions on human life. Now, historians, extending the borders of history, are making attempts to...		Stop procrastinating THIS might seem a mass of nonsensical and quite meaningless words — and rightly so, for I am an amateur of amateurs. But let me say we are in a state of utter hopelessness, we are not sincere to ourselves. We do not believe what we say. We do not act what we think....
An odd mixture that reads well CAN an account, half-factual and half-fictional, be considered a novel? I feel compelled to ask this question after reading what Ahmad Bashir has presented to us in the name of a...		A much-respected name in cricket THE governing body of cricket, the International Cricket Council, gets a president on the basis of rotation. However, the man taking the seat must not only have the insight of the action on the field, but should be shrewd enough to deal with the....
African Bradman is here to stay THE feats of Graeme Smith has well and truely buried England under a heap of agony, and it would take something special on the part of the latter to turn things...		As summer goes by... THE first sign of summer ebbing? Khaki sales. They are the greatest giveaways. Americans call the pants and shorts — summer’s staple dress — ‘kakis’ and wear them to work, to parties and to lounge in....
What is empowerment? POLITICAL empowerment, good governance, equality, women rights and true representation were just some of the jargons that echoed in a local hotel where some 80 women mayors and councillors from different districts of the...		Stop staring THIS is with reference to the article Stop staring (July 13, 2003). This is an issue that has created a lot of trouble for women. From markets to bus stops, the stare brutalizes every woman. Along.....
MOSAIC: Singaporeans drink NEWater SINGAPORE began adding recycled sewage water to its reservoirs in a step aimed at weaning itself off dependence on neighbouring Malaysia. Singapore, which relies on the Malaysian state of Johor for half of its water supply, said its drinking water would now include...		Newsmaker THE Wright Brothers would have been proud. Louis Berliot would have been prouder. What he achieved 96 years ago, with the help of an airplane, Felix Baumgartner managed to do with just a carbon fibre wing....