Paper Trail

To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.

Who Moved My Cheese

Mr Gore wasn’t afraid of looking foolish, he’d take his presentation wherever people would listen. His persistence ended up creating a climate of global acceptance of global warming.

Local Knowledge, Capital, and Social Change in the Age of Globalization

Whether it is selling vegetables or tourism, the local agent does not, by definition, possess anything that cannot be brought from elsewhere in the globe.

The Reality of Disposable Kids

Child laborers, Sex workers and factory workers in the third world are all really slaves. Victims of the people's residence in unreality and constant indifference.

Karachi’s Plastic Bag Ban

The ban applies to not just the manufactures and sellers but also the users of the plastic bags. Yes, that means us.

Globalization and Human Relationship

Globalization has stressed all relationships. It is imperative to understand this phenomenon and to take steps to adjust to the changing environment.

Venus, Earth, and Mars - The Untold Story

Some scientists speculate that the three planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars, shared approximately similar geology at the time of their cooling from their molten newly-born states. The evolution of these three planets along different lines from a similar dist

This Really Gets My Goat

As the outcry against the Pakistani governments plan to mine the Durand Line grows, I am reminded of the title of a Ray Bradbury novel published in 1985, Death Is A Lonely Business. Death is a lonely business. Step on an anti-personnel landmine, and it

The Globalization of Spirituality

When Soros became socialist and Bill Gates generous, we all knew something big was happening. We theorized, we fantasized and we said,’aaha, perhaps intense consumerism leads to something good—philanthropy!’

Industrial Food

Industrial Food is not just about food production, but also about globalization. Multinational corporations affect food production all over the world. Food has been contaminated all over the world with synthetic chemicals

Latin America on the Road to Democracy and Humanism

The great revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara left Cuba for Bolivia with a mission to spread the struggle against world imperialism and was murdered by a CIA agent in Bolivia. In December, 2005, after nearly 39 years, Evo Morales, a poor coca farmer was ele

Islam and the Age of Globalization

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Professor Akbar S. Ahmed's latest brainchild is a project on Islam in the Age of Globalization, an in-depth look into how technology and the interactions of civilizations are affecting the practice and cultural trad

The Globe Is Warm

Global warming has been suspended as in global w-a-r-m-i-n-g? Like deferred taxation it is something we will reckon with whenever, if ever. Is it time for the skeleton in the closet to be acknowledged?

Deforestation and Drought

Massive deforestation started in the 1990s. Between 1990 and 2000 Pakistan lost an average of 41,100 hectares of forest per year with an average annual deforestation rate of 1.63 per cent. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate increased to 2.02 per cent per ann

Islam, Prophet and Blasphemy

The Leveling of America

Friedman shows us how the world became flat and isolates ten flatteners of the world. The flatteners range from computer technology to changing political ideology.

Invisible Immigrations, Furtive Bleedings

Unfortunately, the ghetto is moving into the city. The city is bleeding into the ghetto...Destinies are converging constantly and very swiftly in the globalised and globalizing world.

The Ambiguities of Global Terror

Although the acts of terror are spread over a wide canvas, but each event and situation has its own dynamics. The suicide bombers in Iraq are motivated by reasons that are different from London or bombing at the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh.

Life inside and outside the Bubble

The children’s eyes staring into the multicolored wonderland of Mcdonald’s, the beggars tapping the rolled-up car windows at traffic stops. There isn’t room for everyone inside, with the air-conditioner on. There never will be.

Shrinking Violets in the Global Village

They come on TV shows and accuse each other of chicanery; they create issues where none exist; they worry audibly about our morals while possessing none themselves; they embezzle our money and wail about the disastrous state of our economy; they nearly di

Socio-political History of Modern Pop Music in Pakistan

A complete chronology of influences on Pakistani Pop music and the rapid trend to being 'globalized'

Whither Hath This Winter Gone

Soon dandelions shall bloom
in March, dispersing
the winter’s gloom