Even the American empire, which has compulsively backed most of the retrograde, repressive, ruthless monarchies and dictatorships in the Middle East, are surprised.
More than one thousand and one hundred years before great filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to prison in Iran, Persian poet Mansoor Hallaj was accused of blasphemy and publicly executed.
The world suddenly changed about a month ago. It all started in a small country with a name like a classic deli sandwich. Tuna something - ah, Tunisia.
To make a living he became a motor mechanic… He opened his own garage, which kept him so busy that he just couldn’t sing for four years. However, he did his riyaz. He claimed he had repaired and assembled 300 to 400 diesel engines
Amit Sengupta Delhi
With Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik issuing fresh warning to the national cricket team on match fixing ahead of their World Cup semi final match against India, Hardnews explores the history of such scandals that have rocked Pakistan cricket in the past
Sandeep Kumar Delhi
It was perhaps in 1951 that the Pakistani police arrested some key communist party leaders, including famous writer Sajjad Ali Zaheer and legendary poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, for conspiring to overthrow
Uprisings against tyrants are not always in support of a pro-western, pro-market paradigm -— the picture that the western media is once again manipulating in West Asia
Harsh Dobhal Delhi
In a petition to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, initiated by civil society group Anhad, and signed by several eminent people, the focus has yet again shifted to ‘encounter specialists’ in the Delhi police, especially a certain police officer with a dubious track record. Excerpts from the petition:
I admit it. I'm addicted to Twitter. Like many others, the first time I heard about this 'social networking tool', my initial response was, "What's the point?"
