Book review
December 15, 2016
The world is divided into two: us and them, the first world and the third world, the black and the white, the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the privileged and the disadvantaged, the favored and the damned, the aristocrats and the peasants, the natives and the immigrants, on and on it goes…like an infinite loop spiral.
By Fareeha Qayoom
December 9, 2016
December is the month we take stock and build on the successes and failures of the past. We also create new resolutions. Well, I don’t have any new resolutions. I have only old.
By Fareeha Qayoom
September 8, 2016
Shahi Hamam: then and now!
By Fareeha Qayoom,
Photos by GM Shah - 2009 (Then) and 2015 (Now) Courtesy of Faiza Sharif
September 8, 2016
Telenor released this song for Independence Day celebrations...
April 19, 2016
December 16, 2015
All in all, Its just another brick in the wall...
By Fareeha Qayoom
December 16, 2015
I just finished editing content for our 1/2016 edition. While I was working on final copy, this song kept playing at the back of my mind like a sad refrain…I have yet to come up with the title of our cover story. However, I think this is our theme song for this edition. Its’ so sad.
The perfect sky is torn…sigh.
By Fareeha Qayoom
October 18, 2015
And yes, I have now great respect for people in the government who manage to get anything done – push the paper all the way through to build roads, schools, hospitals - the works. It takes hundreds of engineers to change a single light bulb in this joint. People who can do all that are my heroes. I salute you. You must be relentless, tireless and have a lot of tolerance for putting up with loads of BS and still plowing through all that nonsense to come on the other side.
By Fareeha Qayoom
October 23, 2014
Bottom line, an interesting take on the science of success and a good read. It is short, to the point, and doesn’t labor the point. You can finish it in one sitting or over a weekend.
By Fareeha Qayoom
February 13, 2014
I do know there are many kinds of intelligence around – Howard Gardener listed about seven – for example, Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Spatial, Musical, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. Daniel Goleman wrote about another kind called Emotional Intelligence. I do know that you can acquire this one if you naturally do not have it because I read all of his three books on the subject ages ago; (Emotional Intelligence, Destructive Emotions and the New Leaders).
By Fareeha Qayoom
June 9, 2013
The question is, why update the book at all? The answer lies in the final lines of the conclusion: ‘This is a book about fashion. Tomorrow, everything will have changed.’
By Fareeha Qayoom
March 21, 2013
If you look at the overall pattern derived from world history, you would notice that elite and their bureaucracy are always trying to maintain the status quo or their hold on the silent majority while the silent majority occasionally overthrows them and tries to bring equality which never lasts because status quo must be maintained at all costs so the elite and their bureaucracy prevail in the long run.
By Fareeha Qayoom
Islam, the world, and Pakistan