Its been a while since I blogged. But you know that. This is a quick post, just to comment on my previous post (No Shame in Deceit) for which I got a lovely comment from Bryant of Internet Dangers. My rant seemed to have turned into a self-indulgent, self-glorifying sermon, which is also a typical [...]
I went to see my mother’s aunt over Eid – a frail, tiny woman, over a hundred years old by my estimate, but spritely and alert in her old age – and we inevitably talked about days gone by, and her memories of her brother (my grandfather). Her son, sitting next to her, was counting [...]
With reference to my previous posts on Beaconhouse, I think they may be following a system of education that this author has analyzed in her blog. Read on. It may scare you a little:
Mrs. Kasuri, Chairperson of the Beaconhouse School System, has an interesting view of her schools and the standard of education imparted at these schools. Taken from her message on the Beaconhouse website, here are excerpts, and the discrepancies in her statements:
We support one of the highest students: staff ratios in the country of 1:15.
Wrong, the [...]
When my family came back to Pakistan in 1985, my sister and I were admitted to a relatively new school in Clifton: Beaconhouse Public School. With a foreigner as Principal, the Clifton Campus (the school, now a “system” had branches in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi at the time, perhaps 20 branches all told) attracted a [...]
Pakistan’s elite might be considered the counter balance to the extremism that lives here: a minute percentage of the population that is educated and monied, urbanized off-spring of wealthy feudal landowners, an enterprising Upper Middle Class of mostly migrant muslims from India, and some expatriates who are returning to Pakistan and bringing a glimpse of [...]
I keep reading articles in the paper about some section of Karachi where the rain has caused gutters and sewage lines to overflow, and that water is stagnant and not draining away from the roads, the open plots, filling up basements and underground water tanks. Communities are sending in letters to the papers, “please clean [...]