Tag: Shahzad Sharjeel

MUKESH Ambani, of the unending wedding ceremonies fame, recently enlightened Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the Sanskrit meaning of his company’s name and its significance in the logframe of progress. … Read More

THE worst feeling in the world is self-doubt, the feeling that one’s firm beliefs may have been misplaced, that the ‘other’ we loved to detest may have been right all … Read More

UTILITY bills will not decrease, and natural gas outages and electricity loadshedding will continue until we hold ourselves and all state and government components accountable. The right questions, policies, and … Read More

AS was expected, the BJP, or should one say, Narendra Modi, has won the general election in India. What has proven wrong are assertions like ‘abki baar, char sau paar’, … Read More

AS our great neighbour becomes greater by the day, we are moving from being ‘another brick in the wall’ to nothing more than a fly on the wall — the … Read More

THIS could be a global election year, as some 60 countries are set to go to polls. Pakistan has crossed the line; India and the US will follow later. The … Read More

IN a world becoming numb to desecrations, the word consecration throws one off. It means pran pratishta in Sanskrit, akin to ‘inauguration’ in English. In the context of the desecrated … Read More

INDIAN journalist Vir Sanghvi has raised a question. More than the directness of his query, it is the lack of outrage it caused that is more surprising and even more … Read More

mugs. Life happened, and we all drifted apart. It has been over 40 years since, yet it seems like yesterday. Waheed’s kid sister back in the West Bank was named … Read More

IN his foreword to the Census of India, 1941 report, commissioner M.W.M Yeatts likened the nature of the census exercise to “a 10-year convulsion”. He was, of course, referring to … Read More