Modi’s mythologies Suffering from jaundice several decades ago, sick to death of the constant imbibing of sugarcane juice and bored out of my skull, my eyes fell on an interesting volume on my parents’ bookshelf: Some blunders in Indian historical research by a P.N Oak. It started off innocently enough, with assertions about how the […]
Mantra of change IT makes sense to say that one form of political excess breeds another. Imran Khan should have known that he was trying the patience of the government with his demagoguery and a breaking point was bound to be reached. He has only himself to blame for the non-bailable warrants of arrest issued […]
A test case for justice The horrifying case of the killing and burning of a young Christian couple, Shama and Sajjad, by a mob in a village in Kasur could become a test case for the government to demonstrate — for once — its commitment to the rule of law in incidents where the vulnerable […]
Who’ll save the justice system? In Pakistan we take personal affront to criticism. The content of cries of despair becomes irrelevant. What provokes ire is how someone dare ask thorny questions. The tribal honour code that our institutions have imbibed directs that we must never wash dirty laundry in public. Loyalty demands that we stand […]
India-Pakistan border flare-up a zero-sum game At places along the Line of Control (LoC), barely a wire separates the Indian soldier and his Pakistani counterpart. The genesis of the recent flare-up was the killing of five Indian soldiers on the Indian side of the LoC. The media blitz in Delhi found more fodder with a […]
