THE PAST IS A courtroom without walls, its simultaneous trials a contentious cacophony, every judge sifting evidence through the sieve…
Niggles apart, only two prime ministers were in office when one nation had one election on the same day, across…
The difference between clarity and confusion is often found on the flipside of a phrase. Watching the sudden resurrection of…
Guns, gas and gossip The 21st century, still young, is already in the grip of three superstates: the defence industry;…
<p> <strong>Colonialism split the personality of the subjugated. The demands of survival under an alien power could rarely synchronise with…
<p> <strong>Politics, for Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, was the day job of a messiah. His logic followed a course through…
<p> <strong>The sunset of Kabul has slipped into the twilight of Kyiv and the American era will fade into darkness…
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<p> <em><strong>He understands that a political party survives on ideology, but ideology withers if it is not nourished by ideas…
<p> ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY of 9/11, two remarkable young women, Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez, played the finals of…
<p> Crusaders survive on blind faith; the more blind it is, the deeper become their faith. A small but inexhaustible…
<p> <strong>How Nehruvians revised their idol</strong></p> <p> POVERTY WAS THE price Mahatma Gandhi extracted from his disciples for passage into…
<p> The Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar is one of those urban oases which sidestep progress in favour of romance.…
<p> <strong>Life can be as bewildering as death. A sudden cataclysmic event, its origins wrapped in some game of dice…
<p> <strong>Every crisis has a lesson for the government. Does the Covid pandemic contain a lesson for the electorate as…
<p> <em><strong>A loincloth for Prince Philip and the Quran written in Saddam&rsquo;s blood.</strong></em></p> <p> Computers are useless. They can only…
<p> <em><strong>In life, prayer is hope; in death, prayer is solace</strong></em></p> <p> If death does not unite us, how will…
<p> Anyone seen a pandemic lately? Not in Bengal. The long journey from Calcutta through Bantalabajaar, Ghatakpur, Bhangor, Minakha, Bidhyadhari,…
<p> <em>The 2021 struggle for power is shaped by history, geography, demography&mdash;and a miracle by the mahatma, argues MJ Akbar…
