Category: Reflections
After having changed the world with its boundless creativity and inventions in the past few centuries, Europe seems in slumber today.
The excitement that morning was different from those spent earlier at other oasis cities along the Great Silk Road.
In the first couplet of the eighth ghazal of his 'Divan', Hafiz Shirazi wishes for the Turkish beauty to take his heart in her hand.
Part of the summer this year was spent in Samarqand, the city of fruits. The apricot here is no longer worth its weight in gold.
It has the long title of ‘Global: Lab. Art as a Message. Asia and Europe -- 1500-1700’. However, the thematic connotation of this delightful exhibition is even more enduring. This experimental global laboratory is a treasure house of thrilling records of what happens when opposing cultures collide and cooperate with each other.
It is no secret that Hassan bin Talal preferred to give up the throne of Jordan rather than his liberal views. He was crown prince between 1965 and 1999.
When I went to Hyderabad in the summer of 2004, I was exposed to a foreign culture for the first time
The Austro-Marxists in power believed in municipal socialism. Their dream of a future socialist society was visualised as a "pragmatic utopia"
Any history student would tell you that Gandhi was pro-British. He even fought wars for British against the locals in South Africa. When he came...
Kartikeya, Could you please do me a favour: could you read this article with an open mind without being emotional about it? See the gulf between...
I find it unfair that people dubbed MS Dhoni as the man with the Midas touch to begin with. Dhoni’s captaincy is different from other captains. As...
It’s brilliantly written and a horribly honest account. Almost every Muslim faces such situations and more so when the person is a Kashmiri.
...It is clear that we cannot stop with one test which yielded low results, even if the thermonuclear (TN) device (H bomb) worked. We need to test...
I’m unable to understand the justification of the last line of Sadiq Naqvi’s report which provides the number of people killed in the Naxal...
The story gives us the true picture of the condition of domestic helps for whom growth rate has little meaning. Their struggle for social equality...
This is not a news article, but an opinion piece. The writer is certainly entitled to his opinion but his statistics should not be taken as fact....