Himanshu Manglik/Project Syndicate Today, we are driven by a strange phenomenon called ‘Fear of Missing Out’. We walk around like zombies glued to the hyperactive feed on our smart phones, sometime even waking up during the night to check the messages being forwarded ...বিস্তারিত
Dr Rana Jawad Asghar/The Express Tribune Islamabad is facing a major outbreak of dengue. Lack of prioritisation of resources for preventive programmes is not news. However, this is also a fact that without proper long-term planning it becomes difficult to manage when the ...বিস্তারিত
James Panero/The Independent My father was dead less than a month when I received a letter from his funeral home. The mail was hand-addressed. Another sympathy card, I thought, very nice. But no, rather than a note of condolence, the letter turned out to be something else ...বিস্তারিত
I lost my mother when I was very young. I always tried to please my stepmother. But for unknown reasons, she could not even tolerate my shadow. She had beaten me a lot as a child. I used to stand silently during the times she had beaten me. I could not cry, because she told ...বিস্তারিত
Jim Bright/The Age Most humans are affiliative. We generally want to belong to social groups such as families, football supporters clubs, or the devotees of some social media guru. It is a potent reason we work. In a world where personal choice is emphasised at all times ...বিস্তারিত
Thomas Swan,Assistant Research Fellow, University of Otago & Jamin Halberstadt Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Otago/Bloomberg The relentless supply of movies about superheroes and supervillains is difficult to ignore. Some people can’t get enoug ...বিস্তারিত
Gulf Today The naming of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize is a creditable decision as the visionary leader had taken valiant efforts to achieve peace and strengthen international cooperation by resolving a long-running conflict wit ...বিস্তারিত
BBC The theory of Dunbar’s number holds that we can only really maintain about 150 connections at once. But is the rule true in today’s world of social media? If you’ve ever been romantically rejected by someone who just wanted to be friends, you may have delivered ...বিস্তারিত
Maya Tutton, with her sister Gemma, founded the Our Streets Now campaign to make street harassment illegal in the UK/The Guardian Like so many others, my sister and I have been abused in public. We’re making a stand – and thousands are standing with us My little sis ...বিস্তারিত
International 2012: Mo Yan, a Chinese hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature 2006: US sitcom "30 Rock" created by and starring Tina Fey alongside Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan first premieres on NBC in the US 2001: Nobel Prize for Economic ...বিস্তারিত