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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Chen Jian |Ahmad Faruqui |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana
China’s Zhou Enlai: A BiographyBy Chen JianBelknap PressISBN: 978-0674659582840pp. hou Enlai, who served as China’s prime minister for 17 years, has left his imprint not just on the history of China but on the history of the world. While he always operated under the shadow of Chairman Mao Zedong, he was the man who put China on the map of the world. Chen Jian, a professor of history at New York University and NTY-Shanghai, has penned his biography.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui
Joe Biden assumed the presidency of the United States to great acclaim. He had soundly defeated Donald Trump, despite the latter’s assertions that the November 2020 election had been stolen from him. Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, certified Biden’s victory on 6 January 2021, despite the mob insurrection that was unleashed on the Capitol Building. Every state where Trump had contested the election ruled in Biden’s favour.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui
Professor Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia. His latest book is Nuclear is Not the Solution. He argues that there is a strong link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. I put a few questions to him on that link. *** Ahmad Faruqui (AF): What is the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons?
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
energycentral.com | Ahmad Faruqui
Compared to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV), electric vehicles (EVs) cost much less to drive. They also cost far less to maintain. EV adoption rates are rising, especially in states such as California, but even then EVs have an exceptionally low share of vehicles on the road.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui
The arrival of a niece from Karachi, who’s an English major, gave us the impetus to visit Tao House, which is only a 15-minute drive from our house. But it’s one of those attractions that the mind dismisses as being “too close to merit a visit,” even though it is maintained by the US National Park Service and attracts visitors from around the globe. We had visited it years ago but did not remember much about the house.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
pv-magazine-usa.com | Ahmad Faruqui |Ryan Kennedy
The rates that the three investor-owned utilities in California charge residential customers for electricity have been rising steadily for the past several years. As an example, consider the trend in the rates that one of these utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, charges its 5.5 million residential customers in northern California. Some parties contend that these high electric rates are being driven by customers who have installed solar panels on their roofs.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui
I first saw Father Todd while I was enrolled in first grade at St Bonaventure’s High School. Father JB Todd was the Vice Principal of the school, while a Dutch priest was the Principal. Attired in white, fully ironed Franciscan robes, sporting well-combed hair, Father Todd’s hallmark was the surprise inspections that he would carry out. While I was looking at the teacher in front of the class, I would occasionally see students turning their heads toward the windows.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
energycentral.com | Ahmad Faruqui
By Ahmad Faruqui[1] The answer to that question is an unqualified yes. Why is that? Because electric rates are at an all-time high in California. For one of the two large investor-owned utilities in the state which serves 5.5 million electric customers in northern California, the least expensive rate, which is charged during the off-peak period, has virtually doubled in just five years.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui
After showing us the towering surf at the North Shore on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii, the pilot of the blue helicopter turned the craft around. We were now flying over a verdant valley that would take us through a mountain range toward Pearl Harbor. To be honest, I was a bit nervous, given that my first and only experience in a chopper had been on the garden isle of Kauai. That craft had been flown by a pilot who had served in Vietnam. We had been seated in the back row.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui
Much of the vast literature on Vietnam focuses on the conduct of the war and what happened after it ended. General McMaster, who also holds a doctorate in history, focuses on the “formative years” of the war, from 1962-65. The spotlight is on two individuals, President LB Johnson, and Robert McNamara, who was appointed Secretary of Defence by President Kennedy. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, McNamara headed the Ford Motor Company when he was called to duty by Kennedy.
