Reflections

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," (It is sweet and proper to die for one's country) Migration is a...

Pakistan grapples with yet another leader who refuses to settle for anything but power. The ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan...

Sacralising the Secular The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones...

For a nation, at any given point in time, the most dismal of fears is to know that the future...

Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much...

After one month of a province of 120 million people having been callously placed in a rudderless state by the...

There were many who were shocked after witnessing a barrage of hateful posts and tweets when Malala was shot and...

I heard about Aijaz Ahmad – who passed away at 81 earlier last month in the United States on March...

At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after...

German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche writes, “Everyone wants to be pre-eminent in this future – and yet death and the stillness...

Raza Rumi: Welcome to Think Fest Conversations, and it is a great pleasure and honour to be with Senator Sherry...

Jiyala (جیالہ) is an Urdu word meaning a passionate devotee. It is often associated with diehard supporters of the Pakistan...

Some years ago, I was talking to Pakistan’s famous intellectual, political analyst and renowned environmentalist Dr. Adil Najam. I asked...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as...

It was 6:30 in the morning. I was having börek and Turkish tea, one sip a slice, for breakfast. The...

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Russia just has to be one of the most surreal events in international diplomacy....

For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very...

With the advent of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 2018, there were high hopes in some quarters that the rule of...

For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very...

The title of this article must have had a reincarnation in the Subcontinent, because this is what the people of...

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question:...

There had been a downpour that day in May: balmy Kabul weather. I had opened my windows and watched the...

The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party. Big tent parties absorb members from various diverse (and even...

During a recent appearance on a TV show, controversial journalist and ‘intellectual’ Hassan Nisar stated that the country needed a...

I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a...

Pakistan’s Islamist and India’s secular experiments both turned out to be failures. In the case of Pakistan, the modernist form...