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Book Review: Amartya Sen. ‘Home in the World’. (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation. W.W. Norton & Co. 2021). Visions of ...

A mindful reader, prior to reading the next paragraphs, might ask to summarise William Jones’ profile before his voyage to ...

Some argumentative readers may question the topic of this article. Frankly speaking, Sir William Jones was not my first choice. ...

Pakistan has a substantial coastline along the Indian Ocean Rim and from time immemorial what are now its southern provinces ...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and, ...

The Company’s entry into India had begun with the Battle of Plassey in Bengal in 1757. The Company’s forces were ...

Lad Malika was the first wife of Sher Shah Suri, who had defeated Mughal Emperor Humayun to bring an end ...

In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried ...

Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...

On a bitterly cold snowy day, in the frigid month of January, a Chitrali huntsman once saw a brightly coloured ...

Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...