Indians, generally, are peace-loving people. Most Indians from Occupied Kashmir to Kannyakumari passionately subscribe to the Gandhian philosophy of “Ahimsa”, which means, “nonviolence”. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in…
At a time when Muslims find themselves under siege in India and are being hunted like animals on the benign watch of the BJP government, two brave new books by…
Our heroes are the Muslim conquerors of Hind, from Mahmud Ghaznavi onwards. We name our missiles after them — Ghauri, Abdali — and of course after Iqbal’s mythical Shaheen. We…
Indian intellectuals claiming to be concerned for Pakistan’s Hindus accosted a Karachi journalist in Delhi recently. How was the minority community coping with the onslaught from Muslim extremists, she was…
Faiz had said this in a different age and for a different country but it still rings as true to our circumstances as all great poetry is: Nisaar main teri…
The universal truth that you cannot choose your neighbours represents an immutable reality for Pakistan and Afghanistan, two countries bound historically, linguistically, and culturally. Yet shared geography cannot become an…
DEC 6 marks the day the Babri masjid was destroyed 33 years ago. Before the 1992 outrage, the day was observed by India’s Dalits and their supporters solemnly as the…
TWO essential components of any song are its tune and its words. Most Indians can’t sing the lines of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 19th-century nationalist song Vande Mataram in tune; and an equal…
As 2025 draws to a close in a few days, it is time to reflect on the chain of events that have shaped the year. Beyond the typical highs and…
The irresponsible statement made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh regarding Sindh has deeply hurt every patriotic Sindhi Hindu living in Pakistan. While addressing a so-called 'Sindhi Samaj Sammelan' held…
