Its stunning electoral debut six months ago prevented Narendra Modi's party from taking power of the Delhi state assembly and spectacularly underlined the mounting anger among the public over bribery.…
The spectacular protests around the current World Cup in Rio offer an important lesson for the IOC, Fifa and the organisers of the Miss Worlds and Universes. They should only…
When it comes to laying blame for terrorism in Pakistan, there are usually two schools of thought. One posits that all such acts are the work of the much-feared foreign…
In the course of the last month or so I have seen a number of economists on the media and I am afraid they do not have the foggiest idea…
It was the same army split into two which fell to the share of India and Pakistan. When they became separate forces their ethos, structure, training programmes, down to mess…
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for…
Two anti-national processes are simultaneously underway. Together they largely define the wretched degeneration of the political process in the country today. One is the fraudulent and prolonged charade being perpetrated…
The epic struggle for democracy being waged by the media in Pakistan has now reached a critical crossroads. Or so we are told. After the attack on Hamid Mir, the…
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,/And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;/And…
There appears to be no shortage of books published in America these days that warn of China’s looming challenge to the US or of its approaching ‘domination of the world’.…
