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Christians in India fearful as election looms

Church walls crumble in India’s Kandhamal district, where brutal attacks on Christians 16 years ago means many survivors still worry about their minority’s place in a Hindu-majority nation. With India’s…

United We Stand

United we stand

September 6 is no doubt an unforgettable day in our national history. To show solidarity with our brave soldiers, I also attended the ceremony held at the GHQ Rawalpindi to…

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,…

Jinnah’s children

WE still haven’t figured out exactly who Mohammad Ali Jinnah — Quaid-i-Azam — is or was, even in 2024. Westernised liberal secular, or champion of religious freedom for Muslims? Brilliant…

It’s just a debate

Make or break. Win or lose. Change perceptions. Transform opinions. These are some objectives of the importance of Leadership communication. The American Presidential debates are prime example of this see…

As cursing won’t help, try reason

CURSING the enemy is a heritage of many belief systems, designed as a hex in some and simply venting the spleen in others. In countless legends, men have turned into…

Popularity and effectiveness

RECENTLY, in an academic session with students abroad, I was discussing human effectiveness and leadership. Subliminal disturbance about the events back home led me to dwell on correlating the popularity…

Hell’s architects

GAZA wasn’t always what it is today. Gaza wasn’t always a giant prison that has now been transformed into a death camp; a hellscape of broken bodies and buildings and…

Turn it on again

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…

Heinz A. Kissinger

HEINZ Kissinger sloughed many skins in his 100-year-long life. He shed Heinz to become Henry, his German ancestry to become an American, his original faith Judaism to become a faux…