That right feeling about TV
Gullible Indians often believe that journalists on TV speak the gospel truth. I have met unsuspecting ones among them who believe emperor Babar was a Pakistani. They had read this…
The other half of murder
Could death be a half-truth? This question is obviously a killer`s last hope and best alibi. There is enough truth in that great genre of mystery fiction to suggest that…
Not a perfect world
TheIran-Pakistan pipeline is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Islamabad and Tehran have signed an agreement to press ahead with the project and Tadbir Energy has offered…
Our common yoke
I have bad news for you, Hindu fundamentalists of India. You and our Muslim rulers stand on identical moral grounds. You decapitate our soldiers, we decapitate yours. We both condone…
A society making less and less sense
If we had to come to this why did we go through the trouble of Partition? I have wanted to ask this question for years but never could bring up…
Men are the weaker sex
The one certain fact about this uncertain business called advertising is that you can`t do without it. Such compulsion does not mean this hitand-run affair necessarily works. It is difficult…
Roots of mistrust
CAN militants reignite the insurgency in India-held Kashmir? This apprehension is a major hurdle in the trust-building process between India and Pakistan. Delhi is still fearful that the militants based…
Justice or gender bias?
A supreme Court judgement may be anchored in law, but it sails a long way through the mind of judges before it becomes a public pronouncement. Law and justice are…
A judicial murder and desperate politicians
One has often heard Indian Muslim intellectuals warn that there isn’t much of a real difference between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Their policies are essentially one…
Corruption as empowerment?
If India’s maverick psychologist and social critic Ashis Nandy had planned to ignite a potentially ugly controversy at the Jaipur Literary Festival, he couldn’t have done better than by insinuating…
