Columns

25 Years On: Remember Faiz Nov 12, 2009

Faiz Ahmed Faiz is still remembered - on the 25th anniversary of his death - as a revolutionary. He was a humanist in the best sense of the word, and his poetry was free of any racial or religious prejudice.

Prashant Bhatt

Half Alive Again: An Evening At Zawia Dahmaani Nov 3, 2009

A piece from Tripoli, where there are tombs of soldiers from the subcontinent. Just as every country has a “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” every country should have the “Tomb of the Unknown Worker”.

Khalid Sohail

Human Psyche...Soul or Mind? Oct 13, 2009

Since human body was mortal human beings believed in immortal soul and connected that belief with the belief of immortal and eternal God. In the last few centuries there has been a third model that is becoming more popular in the world. It is the secular

Beena Sarwar

Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem Sep 22, 2009

Jagannath Azad was working in Lahore when Mr Jinnah commissioned him for this task just three days before Independence. He complied, Mr Jinnah approved the lyrics, and the anthem went on air on Radio Pakistan Karachi the day Pakistan was born.

Pervez Hoodbhoy

India’s Nuclear Fizzle Sep 4, 2009

Suspicion has now turned into confirmed fact: India’s hydrogen bomb test of May 1998 was not the fantastic success it was claimed to be.

Saima Shah

A Letter to God Aug 23, 2009

Light of my heart, help me speak so that hearts can talk. Those hearts that wear a shield of iron around them, those hearts who dare not speak their truth, hearts who believe that there is no love for them...

mohammad gill

A Thing of Beauty is Joy for Ever Jul 6, 2009

The beauty of mathematical formulation is such that it provides a solution to some existing problem yet at the same time it is capable of making prediction about some unknown phenomena as well.

Veeresh Malik

Tense Day in Delhi with Pakistani Journalists Apr 15, 2009

4 guys shouting Pakistan Hai Hai, 6 random supporters variously demanding Freedom Of Speech, 10 Left Of Centre jholaas shrilling back for silence

Shandana Minhas

Lashes to lashes, dust to dust Apr 7, 2009

The Taliban existed before the drone attacks began. They existed before 9/11 happened. They were dismembering dissidents and hanging their bodies from lamp posts, long before the word Predator entered our local lexicon.

Nadeem F Paracha

Blow Daddy Feb 23, 2009

You seem to like wars, son.
Yes. I like to watch them on TV.
But real wars are fought outside the TV, son.
Really? How is that possible? What sort of a war is that?

Saima Shah

Hail Obama Nov 12, 2008

Surely you, who are a veritable crossroads yourself, black, white, Muslim, Kenyan, Indonesian, American and under 50, you can see further than others have been able to.

Fawad Butt

A New Kind of Charity this Ramadan Sep 1, 2008

Being vigilant and demanding transparency is not optional but imperative. We must learn to treat our donations as investments in the future of Pakistan.

Jawahara Saidullah

In the Company of Women Jun 27, 2006

For I knew that across the North American landscape, in large cities and small towns, there were others.

M V Kamath

The Violent Face of South Asia Dec 7, 2005

All of South Asia is violent. Murder and mayhem may strike terror in the hearts of the few, but the great middle class will always have the final word

Farzana Versey

The Argumentative Amartya? Oct 25, 2005

He may have rejected “voodoo economics”, but he paid his taxes to America. Cambridge glorified his work because it did not have to live with the reality he spoke and continues to speak about. So, what do we preen about?

Revathy Gopal

A Certain Age Oct 11, 2005

Everything one reads seems so dire. Endless implications for the fate of civilization and the way the world turns and is going to go in the next ten, twenty, fifty years.

Bina Shah

Earthquake Relief Efforts Oct 10, 2005

The organizers told viewers that they had received enough clothing; what they needed now was medicine and volunteers to come help sort out the items.

Zehra Rizvi

The Alternative Muslim Identity Jun 19, 2005

We are not planning on going back home someday. We are home!

Aniruddha Bahal

Lahore Diary Mar 11, 2005

Basant in Lahore, Cooco's Den, Gurudwara Dera Sahib, and Visa advise after a recent visit to Lahore

Anil S Arora

Talking to Sabiha Sumar about Khamosh Pani Feb 23, 2005

Anil Saari Arora talked to Sabiha Sumar at New Delhi, where the Pakistani filmmaker and her husband, producer S. Sathanandan, have presently set up base.

Anniqua Rana

Of Rites and Rights: An Interview with Asma Jahangir Sep 23, 2003

'Vajpayee took the effort to come to Lahore and in some ways it was not such a good experience with the army turning their back on him and Jamaat Islami going and washing Minare Pakistan after he left.'