Chowking the North South Divide – By H. Nambiar
I am a jehadi Bombaiyya whenever I argue with a die hard Delhiwala. If the truth be confessed, I enjoy both the...
Category: Politics
Love On The Line Of Control – A Story by Col. D.Pal [Narration: R. Ghosh]
There seems to be a lot of acrimony and bad-blood between some Indian and Pakistani contributors. I consider myself to be a lover of...
The Mandir Mirage by Farzana Versey
The Mandir Mirage – by Farzana Versey They will do anything at all. They will do anything at all. What confounds me is that people are going...
Open Letter to Imran Khan – By. Z. Said
You compare yourself to your idols like Ataturk and Ardogan of Turkey, but what is your stance on nonsensical dogma that spreads throughout our villages...
The Canadian Dream: Never Fulfilled – By S. Shah
Global demographics show that it is the era of the foreigner from Asia. But, as the digital divide keeps people away from information,...
The Vicious Circle of Violence, by M.A.Baig
The TV screens in every Indian home have shown us the savage joy on the faces of the goons who recently attacked poor non...
Caught In Between – By A. Sarwari
The Author penned this article immediately after Sept 11. It is reproduced here for reference. In an attack that killed indiscriminately on September 11th 2001, one can clearly...
Western Imperialism: It’s Causes, and It’s Impact on the World
Western Imperialism: It’s Causes, and It’s Impact on the World – By R. Rizvi The nature of political revolutions in the West was as such...
The Internet, Courts and The Past Ghosts
The courts in Pakistan recently ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to ban a total of 17 internet sites that have offended the principles of...
Passing Sidi Gaber:Notes on the Carnival of Revolution in Cairo
In the midst of recent turmoil in Cairo, one can reflect on the work of Egyptian Nobel Laureate-Naguib Mahfouz, “The Cairo Trilogy”. All children have...
Muttahida Qaumi Movement: The Lost Promise – By R. Habib
Muttahida Qaumi Movement: The Lost Promise – By R. Habib At the onset I would like to acknowledge that I have very mixed feelings about...
Cause For Celebration – By K. Rextin
Cause For Celebration – By K. Rextin So here we are, with another cause for celebration. A Blissfully ignorant nations 60 years of miraculous existence....
Independent Power Projects [IPP] – An Academic Report
Editors’s Note: This report was written in 2000, hence the data may be aged. It is produced for reference only. Independent Power Projects [IPP] –...
Chronology of Life of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s influence and contribution to political identity of Muslims of South Asia as well Urdu and Persian Poetry remains unrivaled even today. No...
Poets & Politicians: Quote from Allama Iqbal’s private notebook.
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets They prosper and die in the hands of politicians” – FROM STRAY REFLECTIONS: THE PRIVATE NOTEBOOK OF MUHAMMAD...
On Cyberspace and Human Communication – By F. Hoodbhoy
The theme addressed here is how Virtual Reality and Cyberspace have and will effect how people communicate with each other. Allucquere Rosanne Stone’s paper, “Will...
Larry, Curly and Moe discuss Capitalism – By W. Bokhari
The film shoot was over but it had been especially tiring today. According to the script, the three stars had to pretend to beat each other up...
The Shadow People – By B.K. Singh
They are everywhere. But nobody sees them, and when they indeed are seen, folks look the other way. They are the ultimate children of the...
Book Review: How Desis Became The Greatest Nation on Earth
Like the Book of Luke, ‘How Desis Became The Greatest Nation on Earth‘ promises in its introduction, to reveal the mission and events of a...
Language of Power: How it is getting more exclusive – By R. Khan
Regardless of the demonizing of the West, the western ideology is welcomed in every form. A language comes with the baggage of cultural identity and...
Banning O Level Urdu Textbook – By S. Ali
Recently, much hue and cry has been raised for banning “Pakistan ki kahaniyan,” an anthology of Urdu short stories and a core textbook of O...
A Tale of Two Peoples – By A. Banerjee
A Tale of Two Peoples – By A. Banerjee The decline of Mughal power brought about the rise of the Marathas. In AD 1714,...
Jinnah and the Muslims of British India – By R. Khan
Jinnah and the Muslims of British India – By R. Khan In the last part of the book, Ahmed attempts to describe the state of...
Return of Gandhi – A Modern Day Tale: By A. Mahajan
Return of Gandhi – A Modern Day Tale: By A. Mahajan I just walked out of my Samadhi at Rajghat; as the actor Arnold Swaz...
