By Hafsa Gillani Disclaimer: This piece of writing was never intended to offend anybody. In case you are offended, please don’t update a status about it. Social networks, oh they are hot alright. Years back it was the Orkut fever that had everybody going. Now it is either Twitter or...

By Amna Mela Youth is that clay which can be molded in any shape one wants. In my view, this is the sole reason for both exploitation and utilization of youth in the destruction and construction of any nation respectively. It is a fact that the nation’s building is highly dependent on youth....

By Hafsa Gillani Brands, brands, brands! “What are you wearing?” “Who’s your designer?” “Is that even original?” Yes, I often hear that and I find myself wondering God, What planet am I on! It seems like the standard for being a socially acceptable person has fallen into a deep...

A short and to-the-point IDEA shared by Muhammad Abdullah Starting from the creation of Pakistan, we started feeding such people in our society, who had no relation with the ideological backgrounds of Pakistan movement. Two extreme wings (right-left) started imposing fatwas-analysis on the...

Written by Nida Sohail Chaudhary. The author’s tenacious drive for more and more human misery is sometimes checked by an ephemeral affinity towards mankind. In the world of finance the greater the risk, the higher the returns are...

The author, Syed Sameer Rahman, is an editor at iE and a sophomore at Lahore School of Economics. His favourite style of writing involves incorporating contemporary reality with the supernatural. Every story is the story of a million,...

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. The year was 1978, month July, destination Kyal...

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 blog. He...

By Hina Khurshid, our ambassador at Kinnaird College, Lahore The transition from one season to the other is definitely a dreary process, especially those end-of-Spring days, when you’re cold enough that you shiver from time to time but...

By Amna Chaudhry, a blogger at Ideas Evolved. She is a student at LUMS The British Council is inclined to be more British than the British themselves, Stony houses, picturesque trees, pebble drives and small town friendliness are all very well but I sure as hell don’t remember living on...

Contributed by Wajiha Shah, a lecturer in Islamabad We all have different ‘Personae’ – faces that we wear to deal with different situations. Imagine, literally, a faceless (not headless) person standing in the open...

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 been published in RR, Ideas AND the iE blog. He writes whenever he has free time on his hands. ...

By Azba Asghar Butt The famous words “To be or not to be” belong to the Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. In only these few words Shakespeare has explained the deep meaning of life. Some of us like to think that life is all about rainbows, laughing faces and singing birds. Unfortunately these...

By Usman Mahmood, our ambassador at Beaconhouse ALGC People in various phases of their life are all concerned how the world around them is going considering all the problems and issues our society faces everyday. The current state of our society has mostly been the result of such a great...

Contributed by Yusra Amjad. She is a student of A2, LGS Defence If you want to do this you have to study this, but this too just so your options are open. This qualification is necessary if you want to go there, but you’d better sign up now because seats are limited. And this, this looks...

… IT WAS JUST A MERE MISTAKE.FORGIVE ME!!!! _____________________________________________________ Aqib Javed has shed light on a story of the very unfair religious  intolerance that is rampant in our society. Aqib is our ambassador at University of...

By Muhammad Yasar Qamar, a sophomore at LUMS Few things possess the powerful capability of providing a change for good on a mass scale. One of them is sports. Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi along with his long standing Indian tennis partner Rohan Bopanna clinched the doubles title in Paris Masters last...

This post is a continuation of “A Way With Words“ It has been contributed by Ramsha Ali, an junior at LUMS. __________________________________________________________________ Once a writer is born into a family, that family is doomed. – Czselaw Milosz Your family of four has...

Contributed by Ramsha Ali, a junior at LUMS. This post will be published in 2 parts. The second part will be published within the next 2 weeks. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom...