The Uphill Battle Imagine being a parent, torn between sending your child to school or having them earn a meager wage to put the food on the table. This dilemma is a stark reality for many Afghan refugees in Pakistan on daily basis, where 47% of the population is between 7-12 years old and 21%…
Every year since 1999, the UN celebrates February 21 as the International Mother Language Day. This year, the Day was celebrated with the theme, ‘Multilingual education – a necessity to transform education” to highlight the importance of indigenous people’s education and languages. Mother-tongue, alternatively known as native language, first language, or L1, usually refers to…
The faculty of Mass Communication has been actively engaging in conversation about the impact that Covid, Information Disorders in Covid and otherwise have. The outbreak of COVID-19, mostly due to its novelty, pushed and accelerated the creation, transmission, and consumption of false information, unverified claims, misleading statements, false rumours, and conspiracy theories, globally. Not that…
In the words of Thomas Friedman, this world is flat. So, does Friedman belong to the flat earth society? What Friedman wants us to know is that the contemporary world is interconnected and increasingly interdependent; i.e., what happens in one part of the world influences the rest of it. Events like the fall of…
The coronavirus pandemic has swept away the fabric of governance worldwide like strong wind blows away garments hung on the clothesline to dry. In place of a sense of control and direction which was until recently the universal hallmark of the managers and directors of the affairs of the state, there is now a widespread…
A corollary of Buckminster Fuller’s Knowledge Doubling Curve states that the knowledge created since 1900 exceeds the sum total of knowledge created by mankind since the start of recorded history. The pace at which new knowledge is created, and applied towards the development of technologies, is exhaustive and exceedingly hard to track even by ardent…
