Kaed To Azadi: On India Winning Freedom
– to my friend Naheed Yousuf, the grandniece of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad… The Indians usually criticise Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, […]
The Name Game
Once, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin said: “A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life and psychological make-up […]
Touching The Tail Of CCCP Tales
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret over the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s on a number of occasions in the past. He described the break-up of the […]
A Death & The World Equation
Jamal Khashoggi was reluctant to call himself an ‘opposition‘. He only wanted Saudi Arabia to implement the reform programmes in a proper manner and to get rid of the ‘dictatorial […]
Opium, Nanking, Doklam &…
India and Japan plan to allow their armed forces to use each other’s military bases in near future. According to diplomatic sources, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese […]
In The Crèche Of ‘Cracy’ Again!
Once, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951) – the Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily on logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language – said: […]
Idiocracy!
Recently, 1,400 words got entry in one of the most authentic English dictionaries and one of them is ‘Idiocracy’. The word itself explains the meaning…. a system run by the […]
Manto: The Man To Be Reckoned
Lahore, January 1948….. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was looking at a footwear shop, as he tried to assess the damage. The shop was badly damaged during the communal violence that […]
No To Theravada, On To Taus
It was a day of double delight for the Yazidis. When the Norwegian Nobel Committee was announcing names of 2018 Peace Prize winners on October 5, the Yazidi community was […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 