Antonio Guteres (UN secretary general): Because of globally growing extreme inequalities, the world
system is at a breaking point.
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The quickest route to national unity in India is “expressing hostility
toward Pakistan,” Obama
When countries go in their own direction, virus goes in every direction
In his commencement speech in 1999 at the American University in Cairo, Edward
Said asked an important question to his captivated audience: “Can the university
survive as a real university if its governance and teaching mission become the objects
of scrutiny and direct interference, not of its teachers, but of powers outside the
university?”
Twenty years on, an answer to this question can be found in the state of higher
education in Pakistan that has suffered from political interference for decades, where
any form of critical engagement and political activism has been criminalised if not
violently crushed, as seen in the horrific murder of Mashal Khan. Discrimination
against ethnic minorities has become a norm. Creativity is only valued through short-
sighted quantifiable measures and higher learning is replaced by indoctrination.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish
together as fools.
“The most fundamental problem of politics,” he wrote in his dissertation, “is
not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.”
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there were two things which created, protected, and increased sovereignties,—soldiers and
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