What is the matter with us?
From the Blog odysseuslahoriLast Sunday I was at Ketas Raj, the ancient religious site (Buddhist and Hindu) in the Salt Range. It is useless to lament the destruction of the pristine site with marble flooring and steel pipe banisters to the stairways where none had ever existed in history. Culprit: Department of Archaeology. Behind the recently ‘renovated’ (and therefore utterly destroyed) two 11th century Hindu Shahya temples, there was a newish building that I had not noticed on my last visit two years ago. This was a public toilet. But, said the employee of the department trailing us, it had been vandalised. The doors were smashed, every single window pane broken, the wash basins were gone. There were shards of porcelain from the broken basins strewn all around and the commodes were either broken or fpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
We don't hate change, but sometimes change hates us
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomicsSabri Ben-Achour You would think from our rapidly obsolete laptops and ever updating phones that all new technology spreads at a breakneck pace. You would be wrong. “People who’ve studied technology adoption have often been struck by how slow it is,” says Eric Verhoogen, an Associate Professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. “The technologies that make the news are the ones that move fast, but many cases -- including basic industrial technology -- have taken a long time to diffuse.” In this photograph taken on May 28, 2014, Pakistani workers apply cover designs to footballs before they are secured using an adhesive ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil, at a factory in Sialkot. Sialkot is the world's largest supplier of footballs Think unsexy tpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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