Pakistan, July 10 -- Mr Pawn is reading a newspaper while sitting in an easy chair languidly on the porch of his house; he undertakes to read the entire newspaper as a project that meets the fate of BRT, Peshawar on a daily basis. Mr. Prism arrives. Pawn stands up to greet the friend and both sit in the chairs maintaining social distancing and other precautionary measures against coronavirus in earnest as both are averse to the idea of kicking the bucket.

Prism: (Looking at the paper opened at the editorial page). "Reading op-eds, why sir? Op-eds nowadays are all about subjects/issues that were once found in publications brought out by scientific societies, guilds or other professional organizations meant for a limited number of their fr...