Javed Akhtar Claims Pakistan ‘Good At Hiding Poverty’
As the controversy over Javed Akhtar's remarks last month at the International Faiz Festival 2023 had barely died down, the ...
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Tag: delhi
The Construction of Qutub Minar
A few days back I went to the Qutub Minar in Delhi, and took a picture of the monument. Thereafter ...
Income Tax Officers Raid BBC Offices In Delhi, Mumbai
Income tax authorities of the Indian government raided the BBC‘s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, in apparent retaliation ...
Pakistan Wants UAE To Help Start Talks With India
Prime minister Shehbaz Sharif had asked Emirati president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to facilitate dialogue with India, and ...
Celebrating Ghalib’s 225th Birthday Through Rare Artifacts
Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in ...
End Of An Era
It was sobering as well as saddening to hear that our eldest aunt, Suraiya Chachi or Chachijan as known throughout ...
Aam Aadmi Party Versus Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
"Stay connected with India's fastest-growing political party because it is reshaping the political landscape in India." These words are written ...
Two Centuries Of Urdu Journalism And Its Impact On Society
I strongly believe that the milestone of 200 years of Urdu journalism did not get the extent of attention that ...
Muhammad Tughlaq: A Proto-Pakistani Sultan?
Born in Multan in 1290 to Sultan Ghiasuddin Tughlaq, the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty in India, Muhammad Tughlaq grew ...
Of ‘Vaapsi’ And Peace: Careem-ing To Mughal Lahore
Boarding the Careem car that I had earlier booked, the Captain gave me a quizzical look and asked if I ...
The Doctor At 24 Marris Road, Aligarh
In 1947, my mother Tahirah and her eldest sister Amina were the only two members of their family who migrated ...
Memories of Aligarh Days: How The Milestones Fall One By One
My friend and cousin Syed Tamezul Hasan passed away last month. We came from the same small town, Sahaswan, Badaun, ...
Translating The Ghazal Of Ghazals: Amir Khusrau’s ‘Zihaal e Miskeen’
Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by ...
Back To The Future: A Five-Cornered Election Contest Reminds Punjab Of The 1980s In India
On Valentine’s Day this year, when lovers all over the world will exchange affection and greetings, voters in the Indian ...
Actors Speak Out As Mumbai Police Arrest 21-Year-Old Suspect For ‘Bulli Bai’ App Targeting Muslim Women
As Delhi and Mumbai police have begun investigations into the content found on the app "Bulli Bai" after complaints about ...
What Lies Behind The Cultural And Architectural Glory Of The Wazir Khan Mosque?
Pakistan is famously rich in history and culture, especially when we talk about monuments and historical places. Landmarks and shrines ...
Washington Will ‘Get Real’ On The Taliban…Eventually
American pragmatism in foreign policy is exemplary in the world of international politics. The US foreign policy establishment sometimes goes ...
Tales Of Three Calligraphers from Jaipur, Benaras and Sandila
Jaipur and Benaras have been invariably accredited as seats of scholarship. Both princely states afforded refuge to the calligraphers, poets, ...
Remembering An 1857 Folk Hero From Punjab: Rai Ahmad Kharal And The History Society Lahore
Believe it or not, there is a society in Lahore which is doing a very important and basic work in ...
Medieval Sultan With A Healing Touch: How Firoz Shah Tughlaq Worked For A Benevolent Form Of Rule
We often hear of Muslim Sultans of India who performed great deeds for the welfare of their subjects. Alauddin Khilji ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Key Issues Faced By Religious Minorities Remained Unresolved During 2022
Lahore: Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has issued...
Part V ‘Whither Capitalism: Can The UK Economy Shed Light On Its Future?’
What might a concerned and intelligent society or...