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Pakistan is a country that has lagged behind the developed world in information and technology for as long as we Pakistanis can remember. Yes, we’ve even lagged behind the United States, which has some of the slowest internet connections in the entire ‘Western World’ and still sports Dial-Up internet – […]

Carl Rana, like many only children, is pointedly self-assured. “My mother would not know how to use a computer if I didn’t, like, tell her all how to use it,” the 20-year-old Filipino-American said, adding, “we’re impatient with our parents, it takes a while for them to learn, and we […]

The first inklings of sound come from utter, complete silence, the first true appreciation of light only after complete, all-encompassing darkness. Therefore, following from that, only from violent, discordant and overwhelming chaos should order arise from.

If you asked me what’s the biggest difference between Stockholm, the Swedish capital and Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia where I come from, I’d answer straight off without any hesitation: it’s the temperature! It’s now roughly 2 – 5 degrees Celsius in Stockholm – which is freezing for a Cambodian whose country in April is going through its […]

Is the world better off with cell phones? What about the Internet? These might seem like obvious questions. Sure, the rise of cell phones can be annoying when other people’s conversations disturb our peace and quiet, and the rise of the internet makes it harder for us to shelter our […]