By Sanwal Malik A Mechatronics Engineering student from Air University, Islamabad. He enjoys writing about politics, the youth of Pakistan, fiction stories, sports mainly on football and some religious issues. The unthinking Majority- Serj Tankian Uneducated democracy- Serj Tankian Listen to these songs if you have the time! Democracy is the rule of majority, and the majority of the people is ignorant, therefor Democracy is the rule of the ignorant, bound to be bad- Maybe Aristotle? Hmm….Democracy is the best revenge, a vendetta by the people for the people, in our particular...
Karachi Karachi Hai
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Photography by Habibullah Qureshi Just a glimpse of Karachi! It’s about all the random and usual scenes we view on the streets of Karachi, these are the pictures on my way to office and back, long drive and outing on the regular roads, things that we are least bothered to remember…...
The Three Phases of ...
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Written By Sanwal Malik The author is currently pursuing a degree in Engineering from Air University, Islamabad. He likes analyzing things and giving his perspective on them. A political leader, once appointed by the people to a position of power, is responsible for creating and improving...
In the Line of Vote
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By Mariam Saeed Khan, our ambassador at Next Generation Pakistan Why is the word becoming increasingly popular day by day? Why is load shedding getting the fame? Why are all the parties playing “paid-content” advertisements? All these questions occurred into my mind while switching through television channels for an hour. After that it was all “black”. No light. And then my inappropriate love for the past government increased. It is increasing with the number of hours people have to deal with while working or sleeping. With the dead batteries of UPS, the generators rusting for...
Engineering Entrepre...
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Hareem Khan is a 16-year-old who loves writing and is looking forward to write a whole lot of articles for the sake of fun. “Don’t underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others.” What with the constant load shedding,...
Hello, Beautiful.
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By Fizza Qureshi When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you hate what you see? Do you wish you could change every part of it? Or at least, some part of it? “What is wrong with my stupid face”, you think. And then you think about those pretty girls with photogenic...
Let’s move on
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By Marium Bajwa The author is a psychology major and feels that it’s her obligation to spread positivity. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” C. Joy Bell C. You...
The “L” Word
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Fariha Ejaz deeply enjoys writing and sharing her thoughts with the rest of the world. She is an ambassador at Ideas Evolved who loves to write for fun. I have been through a lot in my life. Problems, depression and drama. I handled...
The Law of the Jungl...
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The author, Khawaja Ali Zubair, is majoring in Accounting and Finance from LUMS. He also writes Op-ed for Daily Times. The jungle has no law. It has no logic and no opinion. It however has a reality and a set pattern: the strongest and...
Human Connection
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Musa Ahmed Bajwa is currently a second year student at York University Toronto. It is amazing what a difference having no difference makes. By looking at everyone with the same lens from which one likes to be seen for...
Why is Dual-National...
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By Junaiid Khan I know I am going to get hammered on this topic by friends and foes alike. Well it is an important topic and moreover it has been on our news quite a lot in the recent past. So here goes… Being a national of a country means that you are an integral part of that country: the...
On the Eve of Rock Paper Scissors
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By Ziad Bashir The author is a Junior at Lahore School of Economics, and the Chief Editor of Ideas Evolved. The following is a personal account from him about his experience with iE’s latest project. With less than a week to go to the release of Rock Paper Scissors issue 1, it doesn’t feel like I am anywhere near the end. This also happens to be my exam week, during which I am visiting the publisher almost every morning before the exam to confirm and finalize the finer details of the product we are about to launch in the market. So, since I do not have a single moment to...
Who’s Stalking You On Facebook?
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The author, Ali Hassan a.k.a Waterloo Warrior, is our ambassador at University of Waterloo. He is an enthusiastic contributor, with his poetry and articles regularly published in Reality Romanticized, and Ideas (the e-Magazines) AND the iE As water is to us humans, stalking is to Facebook-ers. The art of stalking was never as creepy or as frowned upon before the advent of Facebook. However, with great dependence on social media comes great incentive to misuse it. Most of us have a Facebook account, change our display pictures on a regular basis, update our statuses daily, like...
Confessions, Crushes...
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By Tabasco, our ambassador from Aitchison College, who is a big fan of beer (non-alcoholic, of course), Grey’s Anatomy and Fevicol Se. *sad face* Remember the time when we used to ridicule ourselves with Lucas-es? When being an...
It Takes Someone Spe...
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By: Nusrat Osama The writer is a pioneer of two schools and a college, she retired as principal of a prestigious school in Pakistan. These days she is contemplating writing down her memoirs. It is truly said that ‘Any man can be a...
In a Relationship- A...
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By Shaf Younus A self-proclaimed “crazy and humorous adventurer, who is actually so far ahead of his time that people just cannot understand him. Wants to identify issues that have never been in consideration before.” A...
LUMS Olympiad ’13 – Ode to Joy
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Ideas Evolved is the Media Partners for this event. If you want to have your event covered and publicized through Ideas Evolved, email us with details at contact@ideasevolved.com right away LUMS Olympiad came into being in 2007, as a result of the joint efforts of the LUMS Media Arts Society (LMA) and Debates and Recitation at LUMS (DRUMS). Starting with 7 competitions and 600 participants, it has now expanded to include over 24 competitive events and over a 1000 participants. And this year is no different. This year, again, we have a whole host of competitive events lined up for our participants. The competitions include events...
Hush, Reality!
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Written by Anosha Anwar, soon to be Dr. Anosha Anwar. “I am avid learner, always eager to grasp an opportunity for catharsis, whether the medium is through literature or art. “ Hush reality, step softly… My heart dreams...
The Link Between Spi...
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Ben Gilmore writes about counseling, addiction and more. His proudest work is contributing to the Substance Abuse Counselor Resource Guide. Any recovered addict can tell you that the journey to sobriety is an extremely difficult one, and it can last for the...
The Best Film Academ...
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Written by Holly Hernandez, who writes about all things related to education and the arts. Her most recent work hones in on the Best Liberal Arts Colleges In the broadest terms, film production or filmmaking is the collective process of creating and...
Stop Hating Bieber
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Written by Fizza Qureshi. “I’m 17 and live in Karachi, I study in D.A College for women and I like swimming, reading and Facebooking.” I don’t know if this post is gonna get published, but it’s about something which...
Reality Romanticized: Feb 2013
posted by Amna
Unveiling the February 2013 issue of our quarterly online Magazine: Reality Romanticized To see your work published in the next issue of Reality Romanticized, email your contributions (poetry and prose) to reality.romanticized@ideasevolved.com Click on the magazine to enlarge it and view in full screen. Ideas Evolved enjoys one of the biggest followings in youth-run e-magazines in Pakistan. If you are interested promoting your business by having your advert in the e-mags or on the website, click HERE and request our Media Kit. Poetry by: Anosha Anwar Arooma Zainab Shanzeh Salman Hina Khurshid Tayaba Chandio Prose...
Where did I go wrong...
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I am Maham Ilahi. The most down to earth, most awesome of all people you’ll ever know. I keep a low profile and the whole wide world knows me(add more contradictory statements). So yeah what I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t get more...
Karachi At 3am
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The author, Khawaja Ali Zubair, is majoring in Accounting and Finance from LUMS. He also writes Op-ed for Daily Times. I came back home this winter to find that the right old friends were in town. Our camaraderie relentless, we couldn’t help but relive our times again. Stuck as we are between childhood and manhood, we decided to make these days count. Our nights were spent loitering around this city which most refer to as hell and nothing else. But as true gentlemen of the dark, we could only but appreciate the night life in this city; if that word can be used. The streets in...
What holds Pakistan ...
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By Junaiid Khan When I was young, reading facts about the world used to make me really proud. Not only did Pakistan have the world’s second highest mountain in the world, Mount Godwin Austen (K2), but it also was in the list of the top ten most populous countries. For me this meant that we...
Poker’s Journey to B...
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It’s been an arduous journey and something worthy of history books. The world of poker has been nothing but a rollercoaster ride of events. It has become a seasoned debate amongst sports enthusiasts and experts, whether or not the game of poker would be considered as a sport. The variables...
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