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They fear love because it creates a world they can’t control. George Orwell, 1984 Power has always been an enforcer of fear, hate, division, polarization in order to control. The narrative has always been about us versus them. With the influx of information, spiced with dis-info, mis-info, propaganda and linguistic...
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Shock waves reverberated all around the globe on October 7th, 2023 when an occupied, colonized and oppressed people – living in the largest open air ghetto – rose in rebellion. There is no going around it. Indeed, there can never ever be justification for taking lives! That said, it...
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While Pakistan is going through severe economic and political turmoil at the moment, a small ray of sunshine in all this gloom and doom is the rapidly advancing tech sector of the country. Historically, women in Pakistan had to deal with numerous obstacles when venturing into the workplace. Cultural...
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Cooper : You’re a scientist, Brand. Brand : So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s… observable, powerful. It has to mean something. Cooper : Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing… Brand : We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that? Cooper : None....
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for a host of movies and TV series – Barbie, Oppenheimer and Game of Thrones. Tread with caution! Today, I watched/heard a most stirring speech and it almost made me shed a tear – well, almost! It goes like this: It is literally impossible to...
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While Child Domestic Labor does not come under the scope of the worst types of labor , recent reports especially coming out from South Asia relate horrific stories, writes Sabin Muzaffar Over 160 million children worldwide are estimated to be in child labor: 63 million girls and 97 million...
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Sitting thousands of miles away in a land of privilege and safety, one might easily be labeled an armchair digital warrior. Taking refuge and solace (perhaps) in the cliché, pen is mightier than the sword, an attempt must be made to find some semblance of sanity during these dark,...
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Being a digitally empowered woman enabled me to get an opportunity to work in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) space which was an area l was aspiring to be part of. I didn’t know how that would happen given my academic background was in Food Processing Technology,...
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HIStory tells us revolutions are often bloody. They are usually tainted with propaganda, hate, with the entire governmental machinery working aggressively against them. It is not just colonial but human legacy how the establishment have clamped down freedoms of expression and movement, freedoms not only given by – ironically...
They fear love because it creates a world they can’t control. George Orwell, 1984 Power has always been an enforcer of fear, hate, division, polarization in order to control. The narrative has always been about us versus them. With the influx of information, spiced with dis-info, mis-info, propaganda and linguistic...
Shock waves reverberated all around the globe on October 7th, 2023 when an occupied, colonized and oppressed people – living in the largest open air ghetto – rose in rebellion. There is no going around it. Indeed, there can never ever be justification for taking lives! That said, it...
While Pakistan is going through severe economic and political turmoil at the moment, a small ray of sunshine in all this gloom and doom is the rapidly advancing tech sector of the country. Historically, women in Pakistan had to deal with numerous obstacles when venturing into the workplace. Cultural...
Cooper : You’re a scientist, Brand. Brand : So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s… observable, powerful. It has to mean something. Cooper : Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing… Brand : We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that? Cooper : None....
Warning: Spoilers ahead for a host of movies and TV series – Barbie, Oppenheimer and Game of Thrones. Tread with caution! Today, I watched/heard a most stirring speech and it almost made me shed a tear – well, almost! It goes like this: It is literally impossible to...
While Child Domestic Labor does not come under the scope of the worst types of labor , recent reports especially coming out from South Asia relate horrific stories, writes Sabin Muzaffar Over 160 million children worldwide are estimated to be in child labor: 63 million girls and 97 million...
Sitting thousands of miles away in a land of privilege and safety, one might easily be labeled an armchair digital warrior. Taking refuge and solace (perhaps) in the cliché, pen is mightier than the sword, an attempt must be made to find some semblance of sanity during these dark,...
Being a digitally empowered woman enabled me to get an opportunity to work in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) space which was an area l was aspiring to be part of. I didn’t know how that would happen given my academic background was in Food Processing Technology,...
HIStory tells us revolutions are often bloody. They are usually tainted with propaganda, hate, with the entire governmental machinery working aggressively against them. It is not just colonial but human legacy how the establishment have clamped down freedoms of expression and movement, freedoms not only given by – ironically...
