Regional geopolitics as well as the global 'war on terror' have come together to ensure that the suffering of tens of millions in Pakistan is not generating the
Around the world, the narrative of the past two hundred years can arguably be framed in terms of how peoples of different 'nations' have come together and defined
In a short period of time, Pakistan’s publishing industry has made great strides in children’s literature – though there is still a long way to go to ensure quality.
Among all the important men associated with Jammu & Kashmir in 1947, Rai Bahadur Pandit Ramchandra Kak and Brigadier Henry Lawrence Scott remain perhaps the least known. This is surprising,
Every one of you? Why not let me speak in
Any language I like? The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.
– Kamala Das
More than sixty years after Partition, sealed borders and complicated visa procedures continue to separate thousands of families in India and Pakistan – even to impact the dead. Since the two
When, on 17 November, a 'private members' day', the leader of the small opposition, Saeed Manhais, stood up to speak in the majestic colonial building of the
