http://www.chowk.com Ideas & Identities of South Asia http://www.chowk.com/articles/14076 The neighbors couldn’t hear her screaming over the sound of the building’s generator, so that particular Sunday Aslam was able to beat Tehmina for considera... http://www.chowk.com/articles/14069 She surprised me by her answer, same old she said, battering. Her honesty made me nod. I said, oh, and walked away. The purpose was served. The momentum was broken. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14057 Attempts have been made to 'saffronize' at both the ground level (by editing textbooks) and by challenging conclusions of scholars who have attempted to rewrite history. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14075 “Dedicated to the people of Burma in their hour of need………but stands there, the government and its obstacles “!!! http://www.chowk.com/articles/14064 Six decades after the British withdrew from the subcontinent, it takes considerable audacity to produce a book titled “The Raj Lives”. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14066 Handing the Supreme Court back to a judge and his team that stood up to the COAS and the President amounts to adding a new player in the already confusing power... http://www.chowk.com/articles/14043 Myrtle Bennett of Kansas City shot her husband John to death on September 29, 1929, over a bridge hand. Her husband had opened the bidding with one spade. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14047 “No, no, no!” I had stormed out yesterday leaving my Mum baffled and Shabbi Auntie angry, when she brought in yet another <i>rishta</i>-seeking brigade. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14032 Pandering to the presidency, appointment of Mehmood Ali Durrani and Rehman Malik, failure to remove Malik Abdul Qayyum, are signs that establishment isn’t blinking just yet. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14046 Nirmala Deshpande a dedicated Gandhian was a true peace activist. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14022 60 years ago, when Jackie Robinson, first Black Man to play in US Major League Baseball, walked onto the field, he was taunted, ridiculed, and booed, but despit... http://www.chowk.com/articles/14014 Religion has become a weekend thing, where offering Friday prayers means immunity from everything that is required of a Muslim. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14020 It doesn't measure tenacity or taking the punch. It proves Machivalean shrewdness. It proves un-Bono like altruism. It means power hunger. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14008 There are more houses and wider roads but lesser pastures and more stinking water drains. The weather does not seem all that pleasant and the air is ridden with smoke and smog. http://www.chowk.com/articles/14006 This is not an easy decision for a President who has often been accused of being an appeaser to the Americans and Indians by his countrymen. http://www.chowk.com/articles/13965 What kind of message are we sending our youth? "Beta, it's ok if you flunked out of B.A and cannot be a Banker or an Engineer or a Lawyer. You can still be Mi...