September 2021

The Future of Life Award is something I probably wouldn’t have heard of, had it not been for a lucky […]

There is a short-lived but hilarious Jack Black and Tim Robbins starrer series called “The Brink”. Be warned. It is

What do you know of the touch test, witch cakes and spectral evidence? An answer would take us to 1692

On January 12, 2018, only four days after his 76th and last birthday, British tabloid Daily Mail carried a remarkable headline about renowned

The collapse of reality is an atrocious experience. An ordinary person treats at least a few things in life as

As the American media continued its unrelenting coverage of the fifth day of Kabul’s fall to the Taliban, Floyd Ray

How does one even begin to express one’s love for a homeland that is everything? Alpha and omega. Home, journey

Virgil’s Aeneid tells the tale of an ingenious plan the Greeks came up with. After 10 years of unsuccessful siege

The Pegasus Project, as it is being called now, has blown the lid off of the Pandora’s box of fears

After remaining rather uneventful for decades, outer space is again seeing a lot of action and interest. There are many

Let me draw your attention to four of my pieces that appeared in this space in the past two years.

“The common law of the Asiatic dynasties,” wrote Edward Gibbon in his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall

For the third time in two years the short-form video sharing portal, TikTok, finds itself banned in Pakistan. The ban

The phoenix, as an idea, has a recorded history of seven to eight thousand years. Yes, roughly seven to eight

When was the last time you saw a science show or documentary on a Pakistani television channel? It is a

India’s Narendra Modi is in a pickle. When he declared victory against the coronavirus this January, he wasn’t just tempting

Disambiguation first. This piece has nothing to do with Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. Despite its ingenious name the company