The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
I met Somnath Chatterjee only once, for a couple of hours in Delhi in 1984. Comrade Somnath Chatterjee , the only communist speaker of India’s Lok...
It is an unfortunate fact that an Indian studies centre doesn’t exist in Pakistan. While there is a centre for South Asian studies in Lahore, it...
With Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death on August 16, 2018, a long chapter in Indian history has come to an end. It is customary to say good things...
When V S Naipaul died on August 11, 2018, at the age of 86, the news triggered a train of thought that evoked another name of similar, or perhaps...
Much to the reader’s relief, today’s article will be a digression from politics to literature. With the death of Gopal Das Neeraj in July 2018,...
My previous column, ‘The art of capturing the mandate’ , which enumerated seven tactics of stealing the electoral mandate in Pakistan, received...
In the seven decades of Pakistan’s existence, at least seven strategies or tactics have been developed in the country to capture or steal...
