Politics

60 years down the line and every human rights celebration across the globe is a reminder that atrocities committed by man against man have not known any bounds, borders, or abatement. Man has simply grown even less humane. While sundry laws have been.

Amrita Pritam had the rare capacity to delve deep into the female psyche. Her female characters, the portrait of grit and determination, were reflection of real women. She was able to record pains of women in black and white not because she was women.

A friend has a great story about Englishman James Brett and his one-man mission to convert Afghanistan’s poppy fields into a pomegranate cash crop. In 2007, he convinced a local farmer to switch crops, and a remarkable snowball efect ensued.

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‘The world is fast approaching the tolerance limit’ feared by some religio-political figures. This feeling was enhanced further by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and further fueled by the US’s Invasion of Afghanistan and later of Iraq. Although..

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently announced plans to expand the Haram Mosque in Mecca – Islam’s holiest city – to accommodate the ever increasing number of pilgrims during the Hajj; a duty, if possible, of all Muslims.

Every year during the…

When Shakespeare wrote the above line in Romeo and Juliet, he was attempting to explain that no matter what anything is called, it still remains what it is.

I am daily angered at the labelling that goes on in foreign and local Zimbabwean papers…

Kashmir is a powder keg, nuclear flash point in south Asia. This dispute has consumed more than 5 lakh lives only from 1947. Kashmir which is having 5000 year old history was an independent country till it lost it’s sovereignty at the hands of…

How is your God doing? Is He under attack? Not by the shoe-throwing journalist. I mean, real attack. Does He need your protection? Is He crying under His bed? Do you feel called upon to protect your God?

Not like the way SSS protected President…