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It’s not the season to be Jolie

Problems stem from the projection of Angie as a female messiah who gave up her only breasts for the sake of womankind. This is a cross whose burden she must not carry
Ratna Raman Delhi 

PAK POLLS: That’s what gives Hope

On voting in Pakistan, five years ago, one would hear people nonchalantly remark: my vote doesn’t count. What can one vote achieve against so many? Come Elections 2013, and popular rhetoric was: every vote counts
Farieha Aziz Karachi 

PAK POLLS: That’s what gives Hope

On voting in Pakistan, five years ago, one would hear people nonchalantly remark: my vote doesn’t count. What can one vote achieve against so many? Come Elections 2013, and popular rhetoric was: every vote counts
Farieha Aziz Karachi 

R.I.P. Zahra Khala

Beena Sarwar

I remember a black and white photo from my childhood — laughing boys and girls of varying ages, perpetually frozen in mid-stride, playing musical chairs at a birthday party in our

The German Pill

Mehru Jaffer

A very good idea like the European Union (EU) is in such a mess today.

Syria: Defy the Cassandra

In the event of the Geneva Conference collapsing, Dante’s hellfire might not seem like a distant metaphor
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

No country for new born

A recent report by Save the Children reveals that 3,09,00 babies die on the first day of their birth in India and almost one every minute in South Asia

The return of Nawaz Sharif

The Indian establishment, while welcoming the verdict of a democratic change in Islamabad, will continue to tread cautiously, given their experience of previous Sharif regimes
Nilova Roy Chaudhury Delhi

‘I hope the Indian government, in its mysterious Byzantine ways, will reconsider its ban on me. I am hardly a threat to the Indian Union’

David Barsamian, American Radio broadcaster in conversation with Sanjay Kak, documentary filmmaker in Chicago
Sanjay Kak Chicago 

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