When South Asia Celebrated Its First Independence Day: Just How Happy Were We?
Each year nations all around the globe celebrate their freedom with happiness, commemorating the sacrifices, offering gratitude and thanking their ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022
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Anwar Maqsood’s Chauda Agust Series Concludes
After the pandemic, we haven’t fully recovered but we did survive 2020 and 2021. And trust me when I say ...
All Preach, No Practice: Modi Pledges Free Speech At G7
On the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Germany recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a chord with the ...
How A Well-Oiled Social Media Machine Gives The BJP An Edge In Electioneering
The electoral victory of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 also announced ...
When South Asian Muslims Fled To Find Refuge In Afghanistan
Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have ...
Drama Of Falling Idols: The Demagogues, Their Former Lovers and The Clingers
Love lost Italian dictator and one of the founders of fascism, Benito Mussolini was greatly admired by millions of his ...
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 ...
Parity Not Partition: The Vision That Drove Mr. Jinnah’s Politics
I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a ...
What’s In A Name: The Strange Process By Which The Subcontinent’s Two Large Countries Came To Be Known As India And Pakistan
In August 1947, British India was partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan. The western half of Pakistan comprised ...
How Indian Politicians Stuck In The Past Use Jinnah And Gandhi’s Names To Stir Up Voters’ Sentiments
Even 75 years after independence and partition of the subcontinent, politicians in India continue to lure voters by invoking the ...
In India, Congress Wakes Up To Put House In Order
Since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed office in New Delhi in 2014, its juggernaut has mauled and ...
International Day of Democracy: Where Is India’s Democratic Project Headed?
With a population of more than a billion people of diverse backgrounds, stable systems, a robust democracy and a belief ...
Midnight’s furies
The violent process of Partition remains a highly contested domain in the study of history. Raza Rumi examines various histories ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
‘Dishonest’ Imran Khan Desires Conspiracies To Further Self, Husain Haqqani Says
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan's mantra of...
The Politicisation Of Government College University
Behind the success of any country, it is...