Three Moghuls I Find Extraordinary
Mughal empire is a significant episode of Indian history, marking the zenith of pre-democracy India. Like every other…
MOSSADEGH: THE COUP, IRAN, AND THE US
Many Iranians blame American interventionism -her backing for the Shah’s repressive regime, her permission to allow the Shah…
Ghalib The Grand Poet from India
Years ago when I needed a book that I held in great esteem to take the oath of…
Jean-Paul Sartre: The Man who Spurned the Nobel Prize for Literature
While thinking of how most Pakistanis grudge Malala’s Nobel Prize for Peace, which she by no means got…
Aitzaz Hasan (1998 – 2014)
Death takes the applause as the humanity’s foremost leveller. Once we cross the gate into our eternal abode,…
Faiz Ahmed Faiz The Conscience of his Time and Station
We are now in the thirtieth year since the ‘Elan Vital’ that was Faiz withdrew itself from “the…
Putin: A Highly Effective Politician
In the life of a great nation, almost every historic transition is dominated by a leader who becomes…
A season for grief’s pursuing – and now Mirza Abbas Arif
As a warm August morning wore on in Karachi, Mirza Abbas Arif, a young man of 25 years…
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MALALA AND OUR ESCAPISM
Yesterday I wrote a piece named “Malala and our Hypocrisy” and brought a lot of thunder upon myself,…
MALALA AND OUR HYPOCRISY
We are ready to judge Malala even before she has done something wrong and not willing to judge…