Tag: Farrukh Khan Pitafi

Karl Popper’s readers know how critical he was of the idea of historicism. This scribe belongs to the same community. Any attempt to ascribe meaning to the creative chaos of … Read More

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” said John F Kennedy in his 1961 presidential inauguration address. Given that such … Read More

The media management team of the democratic ticket in the US elections cannot seem to catch a break. When President Biden was running for re-election, it moved the first presidential … Read More

We live in the age of great economic and political churning and tumult. A spectre seems to haunt South Asia – the spectre of instability. Our story starts with one … Read More

For a long time in my writing and journalism career, young people routinely contacted me, asking me for help getting published or finding exposure on television. As someone who has … Read More

Policymakers around the world gravitate towards making one-size-fits-all policies. Through effective altruism, this approach has also found its way into philanthropy. But it has a fatal flaw. It does not … Read More

Murphy’s law is an epigram or adage which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. In an extended form, it posits that things will go wrong at … Read More

Could you believe it? For nearly 36 hours last week, I was a Trump supporter. Then, I was not. It isn’t that difficult a story to understand or to accept. … Read More

America dodged a bullet last Saturday. Trump is not America. But had his would-be assassin succeeded, America would have been coming apart at the seams by this time. It is … Read More

Are you tired of reading an endless supply of articles bemoaning the alleged dystopian reality we live in? Let us do something different this week. Let us look for something … Read More