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A Mad Hatter’s tea party

Trump 2.0 has come out swinging, enacting a flurry of executive orders along the lines of what he had promised during his election campaign. A short list of the most…

Election 2024: a new Sharif era?

Since Imran Khan’s mess-ups are not as forgivable as the wrongs done by Nawaz Sharif circa 99 (and even circa 2017-18), the rejuvenation of the Sharif family’s era becomes an…

A (mock) revolution gone awry

Composed on the grandest of scales and couched in the most sublime of languages, the epic represents the highest form of poetry. Typically, this genre describes the glorious saga of…

A polarising star

HARRY Belafonte was among that rare breed of cultural icons who become more radical as they age. He did not merely capture the zeitgeist of a transformative period in American…

Punishment and law

Law and punishment are very different concepts and should not be unduly amalgamated. The function of law is the codification of norms, definition of rights and obligations, creation of mechanisms…

Lata’s legacy

The dangers of appreciating a talented yet somewhat problematic figure have become all the more palpable in the digital realm. In the cut-throat world of social media, the slightest transgressions…

Fresh betrayals of the Palestinian cause

After the United Arab Emirates (UAE) accepted the US-sponsored deal to recognise Israel formally by and by, the existing state of informal relations that have existed between the Gulf state…

Contemporary sage

IN his latest documentary, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, the British filmmaker Asif Kapadia marks the 50th anniversary of a purported annus mirabilis for Western popular music. There’s…