Languishing losers
The American system is based on competition. Only the ablest and fittest survive, losers are cut to size and left to languish. The United States of America (USA), the only…
Back to the two-lock basics
IT wasn’t a coincidence that two vote-rich Indian states ruled by two formidable opposition leaders — both regarded as prime minister material — witnessed headline-catching communal violence last week. Coupled…
Un-stirring the sugar in the milk
‘SHEER-O-SHAKAR’ is a lyrical Urdu phrase that literally means milk and sugar but actually describes a blending that’s impossible to un-stir. Once mixed, you can’t take the sweetness out of…
Assault on Kashmiri identity
INDIA’S ruling Bharatiya Janata Party continues the assault on Kashmiri culture and identity and imposes its Hindutva ideology on occupied Jammu and Kashmir. A recent tweet by Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister…
What’s in a name?
PAKISTAN holds an unusual pack of cards. It has no kings. They have been either deposed, exiled, assassinated, or hanged. It has no queens. One potential qualifier Miss Fatima Jinnah…
Are Muslims the only victims?
FIVE Muslim men went to meet the head of the Hindu revivalist RSS. The idea behind the visit was wrapped in the cliché that there’s no alternative to dialogue. The…
First resolution
For inexplicable reasons, scholars seem to have completely ignored an important Sindh Muslim League resolution passed in Karachi two years before the historic Lahore resolution was adopted in 1940. The…
The fanfare and hullabaloo
Opposition parties have slammed India’s ban on a new BBC documentary about the Gujarat pogroms of 2002, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the new chief minister of the state, having won his laurels…
An adieu, overdue
CARL Sagan’s book Cosmos (1960) tells us: “There are some hundred billion (10¹¹) galaxies, each with, on average, a hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as…
Increased pressure
A compelling new book chronicles the latest, ongoing chapter in occupied Kashmir’s decades-long tragedy. A Dismantled State: the untold story of Kashmir after Article 370 by Anurudha Bhasin is a…
