From princesses to politicians
A great deal has been made of famous women in power in South Asian countries. Bright-eyed – if somewhat misguided – patriots have claimed that the systematic cultural, political and…
A great deal has been made of famous women in power in South Asian countries. Bright-eyed – if somewhat misguided – patriots have claimed that the systematic cultural, political and…
As part of the series of inherently self-revealing riddles in the run-up to elections, it wouldn’t be too difficult to guess really what makes Mian Shahbaz Sharif so unhappy. Is…
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…
The words "former Amir of Jamaat" or a person having filled the leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami previously as an introduction of Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who was buried yesterday in his native…
The brutal gang-rape and torture of `Nirbhaya`, a 23-yearold physiotherapy student in New Delhi on Dec 16 led to spontaneous countrywide demonstrations of a kind never seen before. The young…
Most Pakistani politicians suffer from verbal diarrhoea: words fall from their mouths without any control. As a result of this widespread disease, one can never believe in what they say.…
The entire subcontinent is in the throes of crises as the exercise of power seems to be for the purpose of carrying out anything but good governance. The level of…
There is growing consensus that governance has been bad the world over - not just by the state but by every institution. The ignored reality that surfaced regularly - bad…
Some days ago, I received an email from a former lecturer at a public university in Pakistan, who is now pursuing a doctoral degree at a British institution. The lecturer…
“Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyse what slight powers of cerebration man can normally…