Why can Pakistan not escape the Polio menace? In 1952, Polio was the American disease. Roughly a century later, it is the Pakistani disease. Of course, this has nothing to do with the idea that in either epoch, the polio virus has evolved to disfavor the American phenotype and attach…

Viruses are a strange class of organism indeed. You spot one under a microscope and it almost always looks like a mine waiting to be stepped on; for activation purposes ofcourse. You look at an influenza virus and you spot at least three (known) proteins; the M2, neuraminidase, and hemagglutinin…

(UPDATE: This article got me the prestigious AGAHI Award Journalist of the Year 2021 in the category ‘Foresight and Futures’, honoring Pakistani journalists.) The French revolution was perhaps the biggest European media event. The massive dissemination of anti-conservative philosophy, feminist propaganda, and a thorough resection of traditional political framework was…

A geographic account for immune response in Caucasians, Blacks, and the Aborigines. — “In life, in general though, one has to understand the enemy in order to beat him, and that’s especially true in medicine.” — Jared Diamond; Guns, Germs, and Steel; 1997 Jared Diamond, in his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, made an important claim and his theory has yet to be…

Major spoilers ahead. If you haven’t read the manga “Attack on Titan”, then read this article no further. — Attack on Titan is no stranger to fame. Since the hit manga’s release took the anime world by storm, there has been no looking back for its author, Hajime Isayama. There was a time, Isayama modestly recalled in a BBC interview, when publishers refused to accept Attack on Titan on…

Prayers needed for this country of 230 million… Sajid Ali, a cotton farmer whose six acres of crop worth 7500$ was drowned in the torrential monsoon rain that continues wreaking havoc in Pakistan for more than forty five days, lamented the loss as he looked over his ravaged field, still…

Edward Said opened a new avenue for conversation once he published his scholarly book ‘Orientalism’. Albeit, east-west perceptions somewhat continue to linger, it did broaden the debate and introduce a new paradigm for how peoples would view other peoples. Alexander acquired his title ‘the Great’ for he was the unquestionable…

There are few things that can arouse a genuine fear of the psychology of man. There are lengthy discourses and non-fiction books explaining the depths of human psyche. There is a personal experience. …

Major spoilers ahead. If you haven’t read the manga Attack on Titan, then read no further. — Attack on Titan is no stranger to fame. Since the hit manga’s release took the anime world by storm, there has been no looking back for it’s author, Hajime Isayama. There was a time, Isayama modestly recalled in a BBC interview, when publishers refused to accept Attack on Titan on…