THE PERSONAL LIVES OF POLITICIANS: WHERE SHOULD WE DRAW THE LINE?
PROLOGUE We live in an age where private matters that become known are paraded for public consumption, regardless…
How to Master the Art of Conversation
We all admire people who seem to bring out the best in us when we talk to them.…
GENGHIS KHAN: THE GREAT MILITARY GENIUS
It is difficult to attempt an objective analysis of Genghis Khan as he is probably one of the…
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…