Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas and turning away more people who reach its borders with official documents, according to government…
“SOME cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde” WE must first speak of the good. CJ Bandial tried to uphold the Constitution when the night…
DO not read this piece if you plan to watch the TV series Succession which aired its final episode last month and has been the subject of much talk among…
A PROFESSIONAL licence, whether for driving, medicine, engineering or law, creates conditions which compel a person to adhere to certain standards before being allowed to practise the profession. Medicine perhaps…
Koi khwaab na ho to bataen kya?’ (When no dreams stay what can one say?) — Athar Nafees (sung by Farida Khanum) ON Nov 21, Dr Jeffrey Sachs, the renowned…
ABOUT a fortnight before the US presidential elections in 2016, I attended a talk at a university in Chicago featuring New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and former Obama adviser…
THE brazen one-sided account of the conflict justifying Israeli aggression against Palestinians living in the occupied Gaza Strip has exposed the mainstream Western media’s claims of objectivity in reporting. Truth…
WHILE at college in the early 1990s, I had the pleasure of attending a guest lecture by Edward Said. As a teenager whose schooling was through a Western lens with…
THERE has long been a debate about why other technology universities globally and Indian institutes of technology (IITs) in the region have excelled while our universities of engineering and technology…
As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations. Even so, Bains said she was shocked…
