Category Archives: Reading

Style of translation

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

An excerpt from ‘On Long Translation‘. Have you noticed how sentences seem to flow better at various times of the day? My best times are first thing in the morning and just after my afternoon nap. I also come up … Continue reading →

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Could the language we speak skew our financial decision-making?

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Could the language we speak skew our financial decision-making? It is a controversial theory which has been given some weight by new findings from a Yale University behavioral economist, Keith Chen. Prof Chen says his research proves that the grammar … Continue reading →

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Obstacles to Rule of Law in Afghanistan

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

This article – written in Dari language – talks on the obstacles to the rule of law in Afghanistan.

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Barriers to Democracy in Afghanistan

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

This essay – written in Dari language – talks about the barriers to establishment of democracy in Afghanistan.

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Datum or Data – Plurals of foreign words in English

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

Some English words often make their plurals according to the rules of the language they were taken from. Media, for example, is the plural from of medium. Even though media is historically a plural of the Latin word medium, in … Continue reading →

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Gender discrimination

Posted on December 29, 2012 by

I wrote a note on ‘gender discrimination’ – a negative phenomenon which is unfortunately very prevalent among families – in Dari (Farsi) language. Its English version will be soon posted here. To download or to read the Dari version, please … Continue reading →

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One of the keys to growth is openness and flexibility.

Posted on December 27, 2012 by

As human beings, we are quick to identify ourselves using our circumstances, how others perceive us, our behaviors, or our positions in life. It’s somehow comforting to clothe ourselves in these identities. But none of those are really who we … Continue reading →

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Planned Obsolescence & Consumerism

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

This way of selling more products by designing products that deliberately fail, cannot be repaired, or have a set lifespan imposed in some other way is known as planned obsolescence. However, it is not just a cynical plot dreamed up … Continue reading →

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Consequences of the 1980s and 1990s, #Afghanistan

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

The collapse of the state in 1992, which had a devastating impact on an already relatively weak state structure and therefore accounted at least in part for ‘weak governance’ afterwards. The emergence of a tendency towards ethnic polarization, which affected … Continue reading →

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A fact about Afghan society

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

The current weight of the mullahs in Afghan society is hard to gauge; however, it should be considered that if closer relatives are included (children, wives, parents, and siblings), the sheer demographic weight of the category must be no less … Continue reading →

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