Posts by Ardeshir Cowasjee
Winding down
From the Newspaper
TODAY, we in Pakistan observe the birthday of the man who founded and made Pakistan just over 64 years...
December 25, 2011
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Our native lemmings
From the Newspaper
LEMMINGS are small rodents of the Arctic areas that experience population explosions when food is plentiful.
December 11, 2011
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What makes a regional chaudhry?
From the Newspaper
SOON after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement earlier this year that America was “betting”...
November 27, 2011
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Not winning, but changing
From the Newspaper
AS I was recently reminded by a young friend from Lahore, a representative of what has come to be known...
November 20, 2011
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The latter-day hunter-gatherer
FOR hundreds of thousands of years the ancestors of today`s man were hunter-gatherers. They were spread...
November 13, 2011
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Pakistanis do not learn from history
“A PHENOMENON noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments...
November 6, 2011
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The judicial environment
LAST weekend, the Balochistan High Court and its bar association organised a two-day Conference on Environmental...
October 30, 2011
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Permanence is not an option
WHO was it who said, many moons ago, when asked where he thought Pakistan was going that it would trundle...
October 23, 2011
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‘A policeman’s lot is not a happy one…’
“RIGHTLY constituted laws should be final sovereign; and personal rule, whether it be exercised by...
October 16, 2011
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Killing the messengers
WE Pakistanis are determined never to learn from history. Our leaders deem ignorance to be bliss and...
October 9, 2011
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Struck by calamity
THIS follows on from mention in my recent column on Karachi’s rain of the “colossal rain damage in...
October 2, 2011
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Paucity of Pakistan’s politics
PAKISTAN can produce generals of the army who, from time memorial, have held sway over the national scenario,...
September 25, 2011
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‘Rain, rain, go away…’
“IF you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain,” sang Dolly Parton. But that was before...
September 18, 2011
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Mediaeval-minded presidents
THE expert in understanding the wiles and ways of the truly accidental co-chairman of the party of the...
September 11, 2011
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They do protest too much
IN Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, the eponymous hero’s mother, the Queen, ironically remarks about...
September 4, 2011
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