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Shahzad SharjeelDawn |
SOMETIMES the most innocuous acts, involving seemingly harmless objects, can trigger a torrent of events, washing away the best-laid plans in tides of...
AS our great neighbour becomes greater by the day, we are moving from being ‘another brick in the wall’ to nothing more than a fly on the wall —...
THE idiom is ‘going bananas’, but just because we are accused of becoming such a republic, we need not limit ourselves to clichés and should coin...
EACH time, Pakistan has to go to the IMF for a new Stand-by Arrangement or even at periodic reviews of perennial ‘stood-us-up’ programmes for the...
THE Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of India allows persecuted minorities belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain, and Christian...
THIS could be a global election year, as some 60 countries are set to go to polls. Pakistan has crossed the line; India and the US will follow later....
PAKISTAN, Palestine, and South Africa have much in common. The Indian subcontinent’s division, which gave birth to Pakistan, was not meant to occur...
IT is not for the first time that people are fighting over places of worship; and unfortunately, it appears not to be the last. After the consecration...
BLINDING pretenders to the throne has been an age-old favourite in our part of the world. In addition to making the aspirant an example for other...
IN a world becoming numb to desecrations, the word consecration throws one off. It means pran pratishta in Sanskrit, akin to ‘inauguration’ in...
ELECTIONS are in the air, and potted plants are being transplanted to suitable soil with the most earthworms and compost available. Sunshine is...
INDIAN journalist Vir Sanghvi has raised a question. More than the directness of his query, it is the lack of outrage it caused that is more...
THERE is no getting away from them. Love them, do not love them, cannot ignore them? From the attacks across the Khyber Pass by the marauders of yore,...
NOT that I earned any of the checks in its pattern, but the keffiyeh I have is not bought at the abaya and rosary shops that sprang up across the...
DEVENDRA Gangadharrao Fadnavis, a BJP politician from Maharashtra, knows how to remain in the news. I first came across the family name ‘Phadnis’...
THERE is definitely more to learning about the ‘birds and bees’ than its conventional connotation. Though our unbridled population growth demands...
IN his foreword to the Census of India, 1941 report, commissioner M.W.M Yeatts likened the nature of the census exercise to “a 10-year...
BURNING utilities bills is all the rage across the country these days. Amidst stifling inflation, the choicest invective is reserved for electricity...