Remembering Benazir
December 27, 2012 marks the fifth death anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of neo-colonial forces - pushing Pakistan to…
Can India lead Asia?
India has been obsessed with the idea of leading Asia, exclusively if possible. Jawaharlal Nehru dreamt of a global role for India, based on its domination of the Indian Ocean…
When power outstrips ability
The eloquence of Jawaharlal Nehru at the approach of the midnight hour of Aug 15, 1947 was so magnificent that it has overwhelmed the contributions of other great Indians to…
Wartime politics
On December 8, 1941, the United States officially entered World War II - and from that day onwards everything within the US changed. All internal political actors ended their peacetime…
And now what?
THIS is a question every sane Pakistani is asking. In every way, we are back to square one. We are swallowing our own tail. In March 2022, a former prime…
Ridiculed for a decade, Rahul Gandhi slows Modi juggernaut
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, mocked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his supporters for a decade as an entitled dynast, marked a stunning comeback on Tuesday, emerging at the…
Do we need a communist party?
At a Moharram majlis in my native village of Mustafabad, which is part of Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency today, a believer was overcome with grief during a recitation of the…
The vision we lost
A Couple of months ago, it was reported that the ambulance conveying Nelson Mandela from Johannesburg to a hospital in Pretoria had broken down, entailing a 40-minute wait before he…
