The Price of Inequality: How Gender Bias Continues to Hold Pakistan Back and What We Must Do About It
There are certain realities that a nation must confront at specific times. For us, this reality is that gender inequality is a drag on our progress, which we cannot wish away. Our debates about lack of competitiveness, the poor state of education, institutional rot and a host of other issues rarely intersect with the discussion […]
Book Readers Aren’t Normal—And Thank God They Aren’t
Book readers are not normal and perhaps that is the greatest compliment anyone could ever give them. The world has never been changed by people who simply accepted it as it was. It has always been changed by those who questioned, challenged, imagined something beyond it—and behind every such mind, more often than not, stood […]
The United Nations, Power Politics, and the Quest for a Just World Order.
The catastrophic dust of the Second World War had to settle and the world witnessed another guarantor of peace and prosperity, a modified and more effective one, after the devastating failure of the League of Nations — this time under the title of the United Nations. The principal proponents of the idea of the United […]
Human AI Futures: Who Are We When the Machines Think?
Introduction Picture a world in which your physician is a computer, your teacher is a computer program, your co-worker is a machine, and the novel you are reading was written by a machine that has read every other novel ever published. Now envision a world in which an artificial system can create music that will […]
The identity crisis among the Generation Z
When they were 9 years old, they were provided with knowledge of the world! No one informed them of its use. There is a generation of us all that has never experienced anonymity, and that is just it. They were algorithmically profiled before they were old enough to vote, one before they were ever spoken […]
Prospects of a Reading Culture in Pakistan
A nation throughout existence requires periods of utter disconnect in the trajectory of its life. When a nation raises citizens who know how to entertain themselves beyond a screen, it is raising rebels. Citizens who can think their own thoughts, develop their own ideas and above all know their own mind. Reading is an act […]
The Revival of the Intellectual Firepower of the Pakistani Nation
Introduction There are three fronts upon which every nation much fight if it aspires to achieve glory; the intellectual, political and economic front. The latter two have their roots in the former. It’s the duty of Nova to wage a “Hundred Year War” on the intellectual front. Freedom of thought and tolerance in entertaining the […]
Cost of Journalism In Pakistan
Words of one of the journalist of Pakistan:- “Every day I come here and speak to you, and many of you probably already know why. And for those who don’t, maybe this will help you understand. Six days ago, precisely while I was at my workplace, I received a call from home telling me that […]
Hidden World of Madrassas
“The killing of a student due to alleged torture in a madrasa has led to the accused being handed over to the police on a three-day physical remand”. Reports suggest that there are around 43,000 madrasas in Pakistan, while another report from 2023 estimates the number could be approximately 55,000—possibly because around 8,000 of them […]
Why Are We Still Not Overcoming Ourselves?
There comes a moment in life when your entire self-image collapses in front of you. Not because someone defeated you but because you saw yourself clearly for the first time. A few days ago, I got into a confrontation that turned physical. The worst part is not that it happened. The worst part is that […]