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M Nadeem Nadir

M Nadeem Nadir

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Commodification of education

Two harvest seasons set off in April: one of wheat crop, the other of young human talent. The heavens are invoked for the bumper wheat crop while on...

29.04.2024 30

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Masquerade of individualistic effort

The seismic transition from the papal theo-centricism to the anthropo-centricism of Renaissance, and from the Biblical geo-centricism to the...

22.04.2024 20

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Need to spotlight sport

The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), which takes place annually on 6 April, presents an opportunity to recognise the...

15.04.2024 30

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Timely crackdown on academic cheating

Our every educational problem is a proverbial elephant in the room. It continues to eat into the vitals of the education system, ending up becoming...

08.04.2024 30

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Our social matrix is gender biased

She was beyond her marriageable age now. Because of the early death of her mother, she could not vent out to her father the anguish wrought by...

01.04.2024 60

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Writer, punctuation and style

All artistic structures are said to possess three formative and aesthetic qualities: order, connection, and rhythm. Jonathan Swift, the author of...

25.03.2024 50

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Psychology behind lengthy sentences

One question the learners of essay writing frequently ask: how many sentences must a paragraph consist of? The question actually originates in...

18.03.2024 80

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Tail-carrier-ism

Once, an officer turned up at the residence of one of his employees. The employee was flabbergasted at receiving an unexpected guest of such a...

11.03.2024 30

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Mysteries solved or unsolved

Being a student of literature I have always struggled to understand the magical realism expounded in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novels, but the story...

04.03.2024 20

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Distractions and destination

Once upon a time, and God forbid the second time, when unemployment plateaued out, a man became so desperate that he was ready to accept whatever came...

26.02.2024 40

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Life expectancy and formal education quantified

A n analysis by The Centre for Global Health Inequities Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation published in The Lancet Public Health journal...

19.02.2024 20

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Aphantasia in education

Teachers dealing with human resource at primary level of education must be cognizant of various cognitive, perceptive and psychological peculiarities...

12.02.2024 50

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Academic writing

W riting is of two types when adjudged on the parameter of a writer’s presence in his writing: subjective and objective. The subjective writing is...

07.02.2024 30

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Anti-writing: writing sans communication

What I am is an essay. — Jasper Neel   A ccording to Genesis 11:1-9, God disrupted the Babylonians’ plan to construct a tower reaching the...

28.01.2024 40

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English: a colonial legacy or relic?

T he locale is the subcontinent under the yoke of the East India Company. Owing to the presence of gora saheb bahadur and the interaction of these...

20.01.2024 40

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Building blocks of writing

W henever students are asked to write even on a familiar topic, they draw a blank partly because they lack the ideas and partly because they falter in...

12.01.2024 60

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Survival of the unfittest

I truly believe it’s the survival of the un-fittest these days. —Yellowstone, Season 5   O stensibly, the quote flies in the face of Charles...

07.01.2024 40

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To study literature is a different phenomenon

A lmost every candidate appearing at MCQs test for lecturer of English subject conducted by Punjab Public Service Commission fetches a sigh “English...

29.12.2023 40

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Writing: an acquired skill

E veryone possesses some level of creativity, even if they are unaware of it. That level of creativity can be enhanced or morphed, depending upon our...

22.12.2023 70

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Likulli maqāmin maqālun

The Arabic aphorism “Likulli maqāmin maqālun” means “for every place, there is a [proper] remark”: the linguistic etiquette that each...

11.12.2023 30

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Anatomy of paragraph writing

In her 1989 book The Writing Life , Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer....

02.12.2023 100

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Dynamics of sentence formation

We get thoughts to sculpt into sentences from two fountainheads: one is life experiences and the other, imagination. Through his crisp and terse...

22.11.2023 40

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Let’s write

T he proverbial idiom goes that it always takes two to tango, which means in its positive connotation an activity that needs two agencies to produce a...

17.11.2023 40

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English: a CSS gatekeeper

After completing sixteen years of education, the students — finding nothing mentionable to aim at to get paid off of their previous education —...

10.11.2023 100

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Incivility in students

“You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.” — Martin Luther King, Jr   Students’...

02.11.2023 30

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The unkindly intelligent

The intelligent people are always unafraid to be kind.— de Medeiros   The denotative and connotative meanings of words have experienced a...

24.10.2023 20

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Unsettling educational ecosystem

The jubilant students at the dismissal of school remind us of the whining students when they creep towards school at the start of the day. Scenes of...

16.10.2023 40

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Teachers’ Day: student perspective

World Teachers’ Day is celebrated on 5th October annually. We salute all those teachers who transform human raw material into national and global...

05.10.2023 60

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The least we can do

The doom-mongers abound in our country, and their mushroom growth has gone unbitted, particularly in these testing times: their overpopulation is...

27.09.2023 20

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