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Mere preachers or practitioners? IS THE corporate conscience alive and kicking? If the constant chant of CSR, or corporate social responsibility, is to be believed...		Marketing with a cause DEFINING Cause-Related Marketing, or CRM, is not easy because it often gets confused with social issues marketing, cause-related promotions, corporate social responsibility...
Escape from hate syndrome HATRED is an invisible fire that consumes an individual, a community, and a nation from within. It ultimately burns us and reduces us to ashes....		Generation gap? WHILE talking of parent-child relationship, especially where the relationship is strained, we say that it is because of generation gap. Ask the adults and they will blame the younger generation for...
The ‘striking’ policy Late in the evening (around 9pm) on the day of the last strike called by the MMA, the roads in Karachi were jam-packed with cars, buses, motorcycles, trucks, tankers, taxis, rickshaws...		The curry mile SIZZLING jalebi. Bubbling nihari. Lustrous saris. Bulging meetha pan. Blaring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Welcome to Manchester. Welcome to Rusholme....
A net for bookworms Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. And if you don’t believe in this mantra, then you are not a bookworm....		The little emperors are now parents The little baby is lying on the sofa, giggling. Beside him sits mother Liu Li, 26, with her eyes glued to a South Korean soap opera on television, instead of the baby....
All about a woman Should have or shouldn’t have? People have not decided whether Eve did the right thing by disobeying Adam (by plucking the apple) or she should have listened to her Master. And...		Hepatitis A The hepatitis A virus accounts for 20-25 per cent of all clinical hepatitis worldwide. Therefore, it may be referred to as an infectious hepatitis....
HOT SEAT Hot topic of controversy and gossip these days, Meera is very much in the limelight, so we thought she would be the appropriate candidate to be placed on the Hot Seat....		Of animals and men WOMEN writers have often been accused of writing against men and siding with females. At times it seems right; but sometimes this one-sided approach is not taken in good taste....
CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: Long live revolution These were the dying words of Bhagat Singh, a man who had spent a lifetime fighting for the freedom of his people. Sadly, he was only 23 when he was hanged....		POINT OF VIEW: A tribute to Dabir A RESEARCH scholar with three newly compiled volumes of Mirza Dabir arrived last week in Lahore. He was warmly welcomed and was much lauded for this valuable work in the...
A sad state of affairs Despite all possible incentives and facilities, offered in a silver plate by the Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF), none of the country’s leading players have been able to win a single PSA ranking tournament...		DIFFERENT STROKES: Not enough legs in store RECENT news reports appearing in the media regarding the national team’s preparations for the forthcoming Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia make for sad reading. Sad, because there is no talent pool...
Ill-use of sporting facilities Tartan track or for that matter, Astroturf, are some of the most expensive sporting equipment/facilities required to groom athletes to help them meet international standards. And in spite of meagre resources,...		THROUGH THE COVERS: When it rains, it pours ANYTHING that can go wrong, will go wrong. So goes the famous Murphy’s law. And this is exactly the case with Indian captain Sourav Ganguly right now in the face of...
Listen to the granddaddy of sell LIONIZED as the greatest mind in business by Fortune magazine and praised by a phalanx of corporate Einsteins, Jack Welch refuses to fade away into the twilight zone — both in work and love....		MOSAIC Flimsy plastic shopping bags should be banned and a hefty levy slapped on thicker ones to rid Kenya of an increasing environmental and health menace, a report urges....
The myth of history With reference to the lead article The myth of history (March 27), in January 1983, Sulieman Jetha or Sulieman bhai to his friends, the unsung hero of the Freedom Movement, was...		NEWSMAKER It took them more them more than 30 years, marriages to different people, two children each and a lot of emotional drama and public disdain to finally seal their love with marriage vows....