The writer is Professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Liberal arts is an important academic discipline for university students in Pakistan. It is also the only antidote to apathy currently prevalent in...
The problem with Pakistan is that it lacks the socio-cultural flexibility whereby any synthesis of different systems becomes possible
I cannot define Pakistani state in definitive terms; whether it is a nation state or ideological polity remains a niggling question to me
Seventy percent of the employees in any university should be teachers and 30 percent non-teaching staff
Gandhi was used as an instrument to elbow out Nehru from the national discourse
It will not be an exaggeration to say that very few of Ghulam Jilani Asghar’s contemporaries could match his erudition
For many year now semi-academics working mostly in the development sector have been hired to rudder the ship of higher education
One should not be surprised if Godse is enunciated as the biggest national martyr of India
An exploration of Godse’ re-invention as an iconic figure among India’s political leaders
The liberal tradition will have to find its anchors not in India or the America-led West, but in an indigenous milieu
