People on my Facebook contacts and on my RSS feed reader have been paying their tributes to Dr. Adil Najm, who was one of the convening Lead Authors for the IPCC team that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
I have been reading Dr. Najam for a while via his blog [...]
Some Thoughts On Dr. Adil Najam
More Plagiarism Updates
In response to my previous post about plagiarism, The Pakistani Spectator, to their credit reacted swiftly and firmly, not only removing the plagiarised post but also publicly apologising on their blog and banning the said author, namely Maher Nawaz Khan, from their contributing authors’ list. It takes some one brave to acknowledge their mistakes, so I appreciate the responsibility [...]
Plagiarism In The Pakistani Blogosphere
What is common between the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the famous American deaf and blind author cum activist Helen Keller and lead guitarist of The Beatles, George Harrison? They’ve all been accused of (and in at least two of these cases) successfully proven to have been guilty of plagiarism (see Wikipedia article on Plagiarism for [...]
Happiness, Spirituality and Some Laziness
Those would be some reasons why blogging has been light here recently. I had my SAT last Saturday and the same day my elder sister gave birth to my first ever niece (more on how it feels to be an aunt in a separate post soon) and it was the 27th night of Ramadan yesterday [...]
Humble Pie Shameless Self Promotion
On today’s blogging menu I’ve got some humble pie* ’shameless self promotion’ for you. The blogger Ghazalah Khan at The Pakistani Spectator has been doing a series of interviews with Pakistani bloggers, including the likes of Dr. Awab Alvi, S. A. Shirazi, Owais Mughal, Kashif Aziz and others. I had been reading this series with [...]
Behind Kaleidoscope: An Etymology and Etiology
Etymology is the study of the history and origins of a word, or words in general, and etiology is the study of causes. In this initial post at Kaleidoscope, you’ll get to know to all about the reasons why this blog has come into existence, and why its been named as such.
When I first started [...]
