Posts by Shagufta Pasta

My favourite Superheroes: the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

Liminal: at a boundary or transitional point between two conditions, stages in a process, or ways of life. Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan declared a…

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A Paradigm Shift

Political science is not the only way to understand the world. It seems like a simple statement, but when I first entered the Faculty of Arts…

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Shinerama Excitement!

Newsflash. The money raised during Shine Day (Sept 8th) for the UBC 2007 Shinerama Campaign has finally been counted! That means buckets upon buckets of pennies,…

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Islamophobia on the Go

Today I had an Islamophobic moment. It started innocently enough. I was sitting at the back of the bus trying quite unsuccessfully to untangle my ipod…

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Sixteen Reasons Why Commuting is Good

When people hear that I spend two hours each way commuting to UBC from Surrey every day, the most common question is: but why? When the…

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OMAR SIRRI: ON BOARD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

It started from looking at the Terry website. Reading a description of the speakers’ series, I stumbled upon the following words… “We feel that there is…

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: THE LOCAL LIBRARY

Who knew dusty shelves and pin-drop silence had such an intimate connection to the health of the planet? At the recent Vancouver International Writers (and Readers!)…

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