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Today a news article in Dawn revealed the shocking case of female students and staff members forced to offer sexual favours in return for grades and demands of their immediate superiors. I do not believe that this news is “shocking” because such cases are a rarity. In fact I believe that such cases probably proliferate throughout educational [...]

There exist quite a few online services that let you convert files from one format to another. You upload the source file, specify the output format and within seconds, the converted file in the desired format becomes available for download. That’s easy but there are somes limitations with this approach: When you want to convert [...]

By Sonya Rehman With internet usage on the rise, Pakistanis are turning to the blogosphere and citizen journalism to share their opinions. Hosh Media epitomizes the growing popularity of locally-based, online portals for citizen journalism in Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the number of broadband internet subscribers rose from 26,611 in 2005 to [...]

Let’s be honest, a big block of text simply isn’t as interesting as a cool video. As someone in her mid-twenties, I know that my generation is YouTube crazy and video game insane, but this fascination with video is only going to get more intense as the years continue. As a former High School English [...]

As some of you may know, this tech blog and my personal blog are both powered by WordPress software. What follows is a complete list of WordPress plugins that work behind the scenes to add new functionality to these sites that’s otherwise not available in the vanilla version of WordPress.org. These are all free and [...]

*Painting Nusra Latif Qureshi This Thursday the Association of PakistaniAllies (APA) organized a Mushaira (Urdu Poetry Recital) at Tufts along withsupport from the Tufts Association of South Asians (TASA) and the Institute forGlobal Leadership (IGL). [I know that was a lot of nomenclature, sorry aboutthat]. It was a lot of work getting the speakers to [...]

If you have small kids at home who are still trying to learn the English alphabet, you got to show them Alphabetimals (Alphabet + Animals). This little site, designed like a flipbook, has cartoon images of animals that are shaped in the form of alphabets (the letter ‘E’ will look like an Elephant) and the [...]

TechSmith has released a new iPad app called Fast Track that will help you learn the Camtasia Stuidio program at your leisure on your iPad. The app has a collection of video tutorials, or screencasts, that cover almost every feature of the Camtasia screencasting program and whether you use Camtasia for screen recording or for [...]

Students have been using the internet now for almost a decade for aiding their studying, but the savvier of students are now downloading educational apps to their smartphones too. We’ve put together a great list of educational apps that students of varying ages can access and use to improve their studies. BrainPOP: This is a [...]

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This is first part of a series of posts on Iran based on travel experiences in the country in 2011. “Sir, can I ask why Iran?” asked the travel agent whom I called to book the flight for Tehran.  “I have an interest in the culture, people and language”, I respond. “Hmmm but people would [...]

Terminating Maya Khan is not the solution. In fact, it only problematizes the issue of media bullying by making an individual sound solely responsible for something perpetrated by the channel itself. By Farwa Zahra: A few weeks ago, there was a whole FHM controversy surrounding Veena Malik posing nude (read topless) for an Indian magazine. [...]