Let sanity prevail
A SINGLE piece of advice can change a life, says Richard Reed, a writer who embarked on a project to seek the most valuable advice through interviews and encounters with…
‘Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night…?’
It was in 1794 that one William Blake, a poet of his time, wrote that famous poem, equating the shining eyes of a tiger in the wilderness to over-powering and…
Reconsidering our regional policy
Pakistan needs to recraft a regional policy rooted in strategic realities at the regional and global levels and is cognisant of its short- and long-term political, security, economic and cultural…
Reparations
ONLY mankind is brutal to its own species. A passage from Mani Shankar Aiyar’s latest book A Maverick in Politics (2024) scrapes the scab of memory, reminding one of the…
Real pain
AS luck would have it, I streamed A Real Pain the night before Kieran Culkin received an award for his supporting role in Jesse Eisenberg’s film about two cousins visiting…
Jabalia death march
IT will live in history: the Jabalia death march. As reported by Al Jazeera, the fleeing Palestinians were carrying white flags while going through checkpoints, but the Israeli bombardment continued.…
Mourning a friend
THE legacy media seems to have learnt no lesson from its debacle in the US presidential election, as its coverage based on its preconceived notions about the events in Amsterdam…
Beyond Oct 7
IF it is considered impolitic to denounce Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza over the past year without condemning the inhumane crimes committed by Hamas and its associates on Oct 7,…
Iran hits back
FOR the first two weeks of this month, the Western media’s main focus was on how Iran might react to an egregious Israeli provocation. On the first of April, a…
Most hated country in the world
WHATEVER the Americans may have said on record, the past few weeks of the war in Gaza have proved to be quite trying for them. Central among their concerns is…
