March 20, 2003

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Students at work In a grade eight class, a teacher bangs the duster on her desk in frustration, in her literature class, as the students protest against her request to start reading Chapter 4 of My Family and Other Animals. “Give us a free period, you never do...		My best friends’ wedding Over the last five years I have lost a lot of great friends to marriage. I didn’t mean that to come across as if I’d lost them to a terminal illness. I’m not anti-marriage. While I think it’s great for the whole world to get married, I have yet to figure....
A changing world order The world stands at a crossroad. The key issue is whether nations will be governed by a unipolar authority or by multilateral consensus. President Bush has put super power politics to a critical test. Should the international community...		Fury of a spring storm Disaster struck Gadap at four o’clock in the morning. None of the inhabitants of this sleepy locality could have imagined the havoc that a freak thundershower could unleash. Yet two whole goths or villages were reduced to rubble...
Restoring the missing link There are four sisters of what one should perhaps call Indian origin who are married to Pakistanis and are naturalized Pakistanis. The sisters’ father lived in a district town in India....		The cup runneth over I admit I made a mistake. It was a truly bad, no, make that horrible decision to get married. Actually, it wasn’t the marriage part that was bad; it was the part about getting married right before the World Cup. To think that any human being or rather any living creature...
He said, she said I say tomato, you say tomato. At times it seems men and women speak a completely different language. The frustration of not knowing what your partner is thinking can cause relationship rifts. Translation is a life-long obsession for...		The invisible people For three weeks now, I have been trying to put on paper the thoughts and feelings that I had, when I talked to the father of a girl who is mentally challenged. I have been meeting this 45-year-old parent for a number...
Strengthening your career I can still revel in that fine moment of success, when I cleared the final part of the certification I had been pursuing for years. I was motivated enough to continue to add more qualifications to my resume in the years ahead....		All play and no work Eureka! I have found the key to heaven on earth. This is what we have been promised in the hereafter and here I am, a living mortal, enjoying the bounties while very much alive. I am discovering the joys I had only dreamt of delighting in when in heaven...
A case of Tourette’s syndrome My sister has a 9-year-old son whom I have doted on since he was born. He has had a few tics for the past few years, but now my sister says the tics are much worse. She had him examined by a neurologist who told her that the boy has Tourette’s Syndrome....		Glorious roses At the recent flower show in Karachi there were around 50 different kinds of roses, from as large a bloom as the size of a human palm to as tiny as a pinch. They varied in colour too; from dark red to pink, mauve, saffron yellow, an amalgam of white and yellow....
Eight Days A Week The second movie in an intended trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings II: The Two Towers is, just like the first movie in the series LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Ring, really meant to be seen on the big screen. That’s the only way to really appreciate...		An assorted menu Chicken biryani Ingredients: 1kg chicken 3 cups basmati rice (boiled) 2 onions...