Learning and Life

Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence. Incompetence of the "competent authorities" of pakistani government bureaucra...

Central Banks are required by law everywhere to manage and control monetary policy or value of money. There is nothing "natural" a...

IK got elected on the slogan of "tabdeeli" (change). He doesn't know ABC of change management or how BPR (Businesses Process R...

In 1969-70 I was 7 when I started reading Taleem o Tarbiat and other magazines. We had almirahs shelves full of magazine issues going back t...

Vividness of childhood experiences and the distance it travels across time and space. As I am going through the letters, papers and other do...

چمڑی جاۓ پر دمڑی نہ جاۓ دمڑی نہ جائے چاہے چمڑی جائے۔ دمڑی کی بڑھیا ٹکہ سرمنڈائی۔ دمڑی کی بلبل ٹکا ہشکا ئی۔[1] دمڑی کے تین تین۔ دمڑی کی آمدنی...

I remember Sir Nafees Siddiqui who used to teach English at ICB/IMSB, G6/3,Islamabad. He didn't teach our class but we had the opportuni...

Tribute to my school teachers who laid the foundation for my learning at ICB (Islamabad Model School for Boys) G-6/3 near Covered Bazar/Melo...

ٹیکنالوجی نے اب اتنی زیادہ ترقی کر لی ہے کہ عام عوام نے کتابیں "پڑھنے لکھنے" کی صلاحیتیں چھوڑ کر 1435 کی گٹنبرگ پرنٹنگ پریس کی ایج...

فائلر ہوں، چور نہیں ہوں: ہر پاکستانی GST,WHT دیتا ہے،  صرف FBR فائلرز 1% ہیں مگر 13 کروڑ فون، بجلی پر ٹیکس دینے والے بھی فائلرز ہیں! It is a...

  شجرہ معرفت الہی و حقیقت روح و صراحت عالمہائے ظاہری و باطنی و طریقہائے تصوف متعلق نور ایمان

Syed Ausaf Hussain Marhoom: On 18th January, 2012, Ausaf Bhai left for his heavenly abode. A wrangler in the true sense and a man of high pr...

What is the relationship between depressive thoughts and poetic expression? How poetry enables us to face hardships in our lives.  What a mo...

مرثیہ ترجیح بند در شہادت لیاقت علیخان بر بند سعدی علیہ الرحمہ از شاہ عبد الشکور فریدی، مانک پور یہ مرثیہ ایک ١٩٥١ کےخط میں ملا جو کہ شاہ عبد...

As I look back I am trying to connect the dots that I have been trying to follow the footsteps of Prof Dr JC Browne at UT Austin, TX, in mul...

I have been reading Mazdak/ Irfan Husain's articles in Dawn for last 20+ years. Although I often disagreed with his opinions but yet use...

Wing Sung Pen. Fountain pen.  Tons of hard work and cherished memories with this friend.  I got one in 1975, when I was in 8th class, this s...

During the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, when work from home was imposed and most outdoor activities and social commitments were heavily curtai...

Think about researchers who reviewed hundreds of papers that they had to access manually! UT Austin,  Texas in 1987 had around 6 millions it...

Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering Mukhtar Siddiqui Mukhtar Khaloo once came to Islamabad and was traveling to Mardan. This was the m...