Lata’s Legend: As A Subcontinent Experienced It
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, as we walked along the busy Ginza street in Tokyo, I suddenly stopped in my ...
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The Golden Voice of Lata Mangeshkar
The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen! Lata Mangeshkar, one of the world’s biggest cultural icons and a singer ...
Go West, Young Man!
The title of this article must have had a reincarnation in the Subcontinent, because this is what the people of ...
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 ...
History, The Historian’s Craft And South Asian History: A Study Plan
The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing, ...
Fighting Like Kautilya: How The Taliban Grand Strategy Put Arthashastra Principles Into Practice
The eventual return of the Taliban to the helm at Kabul may be described as “sweeping,” but it cannot be ...
Chandni Begum: A Resonant Portrait of Muslim North India
In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t ...
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ECP De-seats 25 Dissident PTI Punjab Lawmakers Over Defection
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced...
SC Verdict On Article 63-A Is A Case Of Constitutional Rewriting
Much has been written about the Supreme Court’s...