UnVeiled, UnMasked, UnPlugged Indian Hindutva
Alone. Hounded. Sledged. Mobbed. Harassed. Heckled. Jeered. Harrowed. Threatened. Sieged. Terrorized. And many more. This is a sample of what happened to a girl student Muskan Khan in Karnataka, India,…
#KashmiriLivesMatter
The true way of feeling somebody’s pain is to go through it yourself. Many things cannot be expressed till felt. Words cannot replace experiencing an event. If ever these sayings…
Pursuing normalcy
The Nawaz government has been in power now for nearly two months. Rather unusually, the prime minister has kept the foreign ministry portfolio to himself, supposedly because it is too…
Chilling facts
A revealing exchange took place between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a closed-door session of the ‘Quad Summit’ of the US, Australia, India and…
Ideology of oppression
Bullying is a habit. Threat is a tool. Force is a conduct. Oppression is an ideology. Nobody is beyond the scope of atrocity range of India. From organizations, to activists,…
Enabler of a dirty bomb
The justification George W Bush gave for the 2003 Iraq invasion was an accusation of Saddam’s ramping up Iraq’s nuclear programme and possession of WMDs. These criminally false claims were…
A loose cannon supreme leader
Hell hath no fury like Nawaz Sharif ousted from power. Disqualified in a Panama Papers scandal related case and facing corruption references in a NAB accountability court, he has been…
Release or bondage?
AS a Canadian author of Kashmiri ancestry born in Srinagar, I became a migrant at the age of four. The destination was to a newly formed country called Pakistan. My…
The Kashmir challenge
INDIA cancelled talks with Pakistan blaming it for ‘acts of terror’, along with a vicious attack on the newly elected prime minister. Pakistanis and Indians back their own versions regarding…
Missed opportunities and the Gulf El Dorado
This must be one of those sweet ironies that life throws up from time to time. At a time when there is so much bad news emanating from India about…
