Indians demand better for women as rape victim mourned
"I hope a change is going to come. I think something will happen," said Aswathy Senan, a young student in New Delhi as she stood with hundreds of protesters Saturday,…
Owning profit
Whose profits were they?....They arose from the sale of energy products, particularly gasoline, that the American Public had no practical choice but to purchase", extracts from the book, Private Empire…
Indonesian helps turns page for literacy with library
Kiswanti went to great lengths to get people to read in Indonesia, a nation addicted to social media but with a lackluster interest in books. For six years, as she…
Czechs and Slovaks still best friends 20 years after split
Czechoslovakia may have ceased to exist 20 years ago but Czechs and Slovaks continue to join forces in many areas - from military operations to the production of talent contests,…
Pakistan’s unmourned Bouazizi
It was a cold and clammy winter’s evening in Mexico City, but this did not seem to matter. It was a season of mirth and merriment, of mistletoe and chiming…
Outcome of judicial activism
The PPP chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in his first public speech, underlined the exercise of judicial activism by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and objected to the court’s performance. He…
The unsung heroines
They are the easiest of targets, little groups of women, clutching medical boxes and knocking on doors. From modest entryways to hovels to elaborate doors of mansions, from huts in…
Unpleasant twists
Pakistan has been making almost heroic efforts over the last few months to put its relations with Afghanistan on an even keel and make a vital contribution to the reconciliation…
Managed chaos Part – I
The fundamental weakness of Western civilisation,” wrote Wilfred Smith in 1956 “is its inability to recognize that it shares the planet not with inferiors but with equals. Unless the West…
Demise and national salvation
ceded in all good grace by the British is dead. Let’s not be coy about this fundamental circumstance. Without the British there would be no Pakistan. The Raj did not…
