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| Thought provoking
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 Dear Editor,
Almost everyday, newspapers report cases of suicide attempts by unhappy, unemploy`ed young men. We need to figure out what must be done to stop this suicide spree among our youth. Unfortunately, no one seems to have a clear idea of what should be done. The present system of education is mainly responsible for this state of affairs. Our young men are not equipped to deal with life, as they should be. When leave the portals of the university in thousands, they can think only of one thing: a job. They know nothing of about trade. They don’t have any technical skills and even the science students have only a theoretical knowledge of their subjects; their vocational education is singularly inadequate and limited.
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| TREASURE TROVE
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 Gold dust
nThe revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara
nMankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams
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The end of ‘Fergie time’
By Nabeel Naqvi
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 The Mayan belief of the world ending on December 21, 2012 has finally come true only with a five-month delay of course... for the fans of Manchester United.
Well, hopefully a mighty comet won’t crash into the earth’s surface very soon, and hopefully the inner core of this planet won’t suck everything to nothingness, but the dugout at Old Trafford won’t be the same probably ever again.
The man behind the wheel at Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson, has finally decided to throw in the towel; his age is apparently not allowing him to take the pain and pressure that comes with managing one of the biggest sports franchises in the world.
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| Bowling out in style
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 Book: Shane Warne’s Century
Author: Shane Warne
Reviewed by Omair Alavi
For a cricketer with no three-figure score to his name, Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has come a long way with Shane Warne’s Century. But unlike the runs or wickets on the field, this century by the greatest leg spinner of all time is about his favourite 100 Test cricketers, those who donned the whites and played the game with distinction.
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Economic Confessions of Ramchand Pakistani
By Muhammad Umair
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 This year I carefully chalked down a strategy to avoid long queues at CNG stations by hoarding petrol in my own home, acting smart and setting up an alarm on my fully-charged smart phone, when electricity supply is in abundance so that I can wake up in the middle of the night and enable my geyser to burn its mid-night oil. I planned to upgrade my UPS; yes sir, I am aware darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. I sent birthday wishes at least three days in advance via SMS and two days in case of social media sites; failing on both occasions, I switched to pigeons. Oh, how could I forget I planned to vote.
Our economic managers, completely conscious of gaps between demand and supply of everything produced and consumed within the land of the pure,
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| Poems Forever
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 One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place—
Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
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From myth to reality
By Aymen Arif Malik
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 Faced with some natural phenomena it could not explain, the human mind went wild and through imagination, misidentification, speculation or outright deception, fantastical mythological creatures appeared in cultures all around the world.
Mythical creatures are almost always literary creatures that generated popularity out of literary circulation and story-telling. They are legendary creatures that at one point were believed to be real beings, while some have their origin traced from literary myths.
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MILESTONE
By Rafia Saleem
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 ‘Congratulations, Rafia, really proud of your achievements. Good going!’ This message was followed by a friend request popping on to my screen. My jaw actually dropped. Not knowing how to react, I was perhaps too lost to reply while the moments from my professional past recurred to me in a flashback.
In November 2006, I entered into professional life with the start of my mandatory training under Chartered Accountancy in a local firm. On joining, I came to know that I was amongst the rarest breed ever for the organization –
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STORY
By Faisal Amir
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 On a bright clear day there could be seen a blob in the sky. This blob, getting bigger, fell in the vicinity of a tribe living in seclusion. This wreck (for wreck of a monoplane it was), bounded on the far-side by non-negotiable marshes, lay on the edge of a dense growth of foliage.
After a space of time - time sufficient for the tribesmen to gaze with wonder and murmur with amazement - there crawled out of the wreckage a guy. Now, (for people un-acquainted with airplanes) there is something about a guy crawling out of an object fallen from the sky, which stumps the conventional modes of expression.
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| I am a failed writer
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Hi Guru,
I am a regular reader of Us magazine. The material I find here is very interesting and captivating. I have been trying to write for a long while, but I have an issue that needs attention. When I think about a topic to write on, I go on quite well for a few pages, but after some time I get distracted. I run out of ideas and thoughts. As a result, I lose interest in my writing and ultimately I just wind up the work. I am continuously working on my language, yet my I have not been able to come up with something worth publishing. Please suggest me how to overcome this problem.
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THE GREEN ROOM
By Sameen Amer
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 COMING SZZN
Out this week
Albums
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here by Alice in Chains: Fifth album by the rock band, their second release since their 2005 reunion with William DuVall on vocals; follows 2009’s Black Gives Way to Blue; includes the singles ‘Hollow’ and ‘Stone’.
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