Africa, LGBT rights and global agencies

In May, Uganda signed an anti-gay legislation, and last week the World Bank said it…

AI — the good, the bad and the ugly

Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has left Google and has warned about the technology’s…

Democracy — the sacred cow

Almost 400 years before Christ, Plato likened the ‘state’ to a ship and asked if…

Generals of Sudan

It is heart-breaking to pick your pen up to write on Sudan. This country got…

Globalisation is dead

“Globalization is almost dead. Free trade is almost dead,” said Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan…

Iqbal’s khudi

In the ‘Reconstruction’ Iqbal bases his idea of human ego or khudi on the Quranic precepts of…

Understanding our universe

Our universe is a closed system, but because it is constantly expanding, it is a…

About Language

In evolution-science all life on Earth is part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common…

Arrested democracy

Recently, Pakistan is giving the picture of a battlefield. The battlefield is between the military,…

Geo-economics of democracy

Geo-economics follows the dictates of capitalism; it demands property rights — not only in one’s…