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Telling it as it is 26 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
By Zubeida Mustafa AS Pakistan’s problems multiply, publications on Pakistan receive a corresponding boost. Never before have so many books on the country hit the shelf. Hence an author has to come u...
Abbottabad revisited 21 Aug 2013 | 01:34 pm
By Zubeida Mustafa THE dust raised by the Abbottabad Commission’s report took long to settle. Each time it seemed the matter was settled, some new issue would emerge to stir ripples of excitement. N...
Licence to kill? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
By Zubeida Mustafa ANNIVERSARIES are a time for reflection. And if they are also marked with celebration, the idea is to reaffirm the spirit of the event that is being commemorated. That is what Paki...
Looking for careers 8 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
By Zubeida Mustafa A FEW weeks ago I wrote about the death of the social sciences. I didn’t realise that the social sciences still had such a devoted following in a country which has virtually murder...
Where we went wrong 31 Jul 2013 | 11:31 am
By Zubeida Mustafa IT was supposed to be an occasion to felicitate Malala on her birthday and use her speech at the UN Youth Assembly to inspire the audience. Party representatives were to be brought...
Fabricating history 24 Jul 2013 | 10:36 am
By Zubeida Mustafa THE SIUT’s Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) holds interesting forums periodically where renowned scholars are invited to address the members. Since ethics is a wide-...
Media in the spotlight 17 Jul 2013 | 03:19 pm
By Zubeida Mustafa THE two-member media commission’s recommendation for consultations on the review of all media laws and codes could not have been more timely. The fact is that lately a lot of conce...
Death of social sciences 10 Jul 2013 | 11:34 am
By Zubeida Mustafa THE competition for space in academia between the social sciences and the ‘others’ — namely, the pure and physical sciences, technological disciplines, medicine-related knowledge, ...
Writing for children 3 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
By Zubeida Mustafa AN email circular drew my attention to The ABC of It, an exhibition of children’s books that opened in the New York Public Library last week. The NYPL website announced that litera...
Of days gone by 1 Jul 2013 | 01:14 pm
By Nikhat Sattar In 1947, a well known and educated gentleman, Yousuf Dehlvi started a publishing house in Delhi along with his three sons. Shama Publications as it was named, catered to the growing ...