Author: Sarfaraz Niazi
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Global Health Flux and the Pharmaceutical Industry
New diseases are created everyday: Ebola and HIV are just two names unheard of in the1970s. For most of these new diseases, we know…
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Women can kill you—
Khusro Pervaiz was the king of Persia; his wife Shireen was a knockout and guess what the lad down the road by the name of Farhad…
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Einstein’s Philosophy and Investment Objectives
Einstein was asked what he considered to be the most fascinating mathematical concept. Without hesitation, he…
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Indoor Pollution—our worse enemy
Some of the most polluted air you can breathe isn’t downtown but inside your own home. Surprised? Studies from the Environmental…
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Ghalib’s opening verse
This opening verse of Ghalib’s Urdu poetry is devotional in nature. Who created this Universe?, the first verse asks in a…
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What’s in Morality? Is it for Every one?
Philosophy teaches the purpose of our life and should one go about achieving it. Ethics (as I will define it later for it…
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Beauty, beauty!
If you go for cliches, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder but if you dig the philosophic stuff, an Aristotelian beauty is a thing of practical…
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A Primer to Philosophy
Nothing livens up your conversation more than a gentle dose of philosophy into it. Philosophic tools and techniques…
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Murder of a Nation
Hakim Mohammad Said was murdered yesterday for the sin of living for the destitute, for the sin of being born amongst…