The end of a legend
K S S Pillai In a large country like ours, it is unrealistic to expect a white-collar job of one’s choice near one’s residence. It makes migration to other parts of the country or even another country normal. I have traversed this route and settled in a distant part of the country, but I make […]
I Died a Death Today
Fahid Fayaz Darangay 28 September 1995, Thursday a child was born like other children on that day. I am sure there would have been born millions in the world on that day as 385,000 babies are born every day. These children will be a couple weeks far from their 26th birthday. Many would be waiting, […]
Construction Management offers bright career option
Vijay Garg There are many career paths and interrelated areas in the field of construction, which can progress from construction labor to construction management, with numerous other areas of interest in between. So, just what does management in construction entail, and what kinds of career paths are available to those interested in the field? Construction […]
Language passport
Bashir Ahmad Dar English has become an effective tool which connects people from different corners of the world. It has become the language of masses and is currently the second most common spoken language in the world. Different countries around world have included it in their school and university syllabi. Its importance is such that […]
Spinal infections can cause complex spinal deformity
Dr Satnam Singh Chabra Spinal infections are the rare infections which occur in or around the spine region of the body. It is one rare condition which can lead to the permanent damage of the spinal cord of a person. It involves the intervertebral disc space, the vertebral bones, the spinal canal, or the adjacent […]
The missing human touch
Zubair Hamid Parray We are now living in a tech-savvy world filled with objects like smart phones, computers and tablets that have become an integral part of our life. It is now hard to imagine our lives without artificial intelligence. The progress that we have made from mobile phones to smart phones and computers to […]
Dunbar’s magic number and my sense of guilt!
Desh Bir Robin Dunbar, the anthropologist and psychologist, whose research found that the maximum number of people a person can have in a very well knit network of friends and acquaintances does not exceed 150. He claims that this is universally true. He must be legitimate in his enunciation since it is based on scientific […]
Complexities of social media
Mohammad Rizwan Bhat Social media has proved to be a huge revolution in taking human creativity and talent to a whole new level. A plethora of platforms have been and are being created daily to bring artists from every field to limelight. Many artists owe their careers to a virtual blessing called social media. There […]
The UPI moment for personal data
Anil Padmanabhan Last week India launched yet another ambitious plan to fundamentally alter status quo. This time with the intent of empowering individuals and small enterprises through their personal data. The Account Aggregator (AA) framework, enabling this monetisation of personal data, was launched at a virtual event hosted by iSPIRIT, a group of technology evangelicals […]
The rebound
Asad Mirza Pakistani government at the moment seems to be in a quandary. The manner in which it wanted to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has rebounded threatening to reinforce religious fundamentalists inclinations in Pakistan itself. US President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan was due to the realisation that religious […]