In his recent newsletter �Happy Kids�, parenting expert Michael Grose (yes he is an expert with three kids of his own) said: Australian parents currently rate achieving work-family balance as their greatest parenting challenge. Currently, 71% of Australian parents say they have difficulty finding time to do the things they enjoy with their children. So […]
Pushto folk singers to migrate to Lahore, Karachi
By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR: In wake of the MMA government’s ban on music in public places, most of the Pakhto folk singers have decided to migrate to the capitals of the Punjab and Sindh provinces. "We are the representatives of the rich and glorious cultural history of the Pakhtuns. There is no vulgarity and obscenity […]
Bhutan’s Refugee mess in changed context
For the last sixteen years of horrific lives in Bhutanese refugee camps, several attempts to draw the attention at regional, national and international level were made one after the other but to no avail. As a result, now the Bhutanese refugee problem is gradually getting complicated. With the long term stay inside the unimproved plastic […]
Schooling isn’t education
Until the moment I withdrew my sons from state education in the UK, I confused education with schooling. It’s a common mistake, and one which is easier to make if you have been through the state education machine yourself. The state spends considerable amounts of money – our money! – persuading us that the two […]
“Breach!”: A Complete Thriller
When I first saw the trailer for the movie Breach, I had my doubts. I thought it was going to be another bad attempt at a spy movie. This however, was not the case. The movie is based on the true story of one of the largest breaches of security in U.S. history. […]
A TIME TRIP TO THE ERIE CANAL
ERIE CANAL VILLAGE…. FIFTEEN MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL Just a few miles south of Rome, NY a short steel-railed bridge crosses an anonymous stream. It runs East-West, straight as an arrow, as if nature had played a trick on itself. It did not. Men in fact built […]