Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh, Gandhi, Churchill and Jinnah

Reviewing positions of three key players on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre - the watershed event of India’s independence.

The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes

As soon as the western powers recognise Kosovo as an independent country, it will cause a huge dislocation in the fabric of all other separatist terrorist campaigns

1857-What Really Happened-A Reconstruction

A brief analysis of the claims about 1857 as one hears them in today’s Pakistan.

War of Independence or the Great Mutiny

A review of William Dalrymple's book, The Last Mughal

The 'poor' Neighbour

India is seen as a success story, while Pakistan is written off as a failed state and the hiding place of Osama bin Laden. What went wrong?

60 Years of American DogHood

Graffiti in Karachi proclaims that General Musharraf is an American Dog who must be shot dead. (General Amriki Kutta, Tthaa!!). It’s an idea, problem is that not much of Pakistan will remain if we shoot all the American Dogs

India's Yin and Yang 60 years After Independence

There is no disease that has not afflicted India, no catastrophe not experienced... Yet India, a land of fabled and stoic resilience, always picks itself up and keeps going.

Celebrating Pakistan's 60th Anniversary

What better way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Pakistan's independence from Britain than poetry from Iqbal, the man who is Pakistan's ideological founding father?

Cause For Celebration

Malaysia is also a former British colony. It’s still developing but it’s taken the first step towards that goal, and its well on its way.

Let us do away with Kashmir

Asked whether Pakistan was giving up its claim to Kashmir, Musharraf said, 'We will have to... yes... if this solution comes up'.

Chained dreams and unchained reality

So betrayed by faith
The others stand so tall and straight
Why was it always my mind that strayed?

Decoding Spirit of Independence

Even with a tight security jacket in place, the South Asian subcontinent is into celebration mode with India and Pakistan commemorating the 60th Independence Day.

Secular Army

It is a great contribution to Independent India that those who do not wear uniforms and may be communal themselves, made sure that those in uniform remained secular.

This thing called Love of Country

If we want to know why we are what we are, psychology, science, anthropology, sociology, geography, environment, economics ---everything can be used to excavate the past. Uncover inconvenient truths. But we have to be brave enough to look these truths in

The Freedom of Empathy

Are we strong enough to want the freedom that so many would die for? Can we begin to appreciate what we have been given?

Erica

Her morals were of the highest standards and she always stood for values like truth and justice. She resolved issues with wisdom and pretty soon her stance on issues were valued and respected by people everywhere.

Catfood and Little Women

Life, then, comes down to a debate as to which is worse: death by dreariness or death as catfood.

Independence

‘I love my country, but I don’t think my country loves me.’

Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence

Sooner or later, all foreign troops will have to leave Iraq. If they do not do so voluntarily, they will be driven out. Their continuing presence is a spur to violence.

Open Letter to General Musharraf

Field Marshal Ayub Khan was forced out of power after extensive rioting . . .

• British Rule
• Independence
• Democracy
• NRIs
• Economic Boom
• Bollywood
• Globalization
• Caste System
• Communal Divides
• Kashmir
• Indian Muslims
• Secularism

• Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy
• The Indian Story
• Indo-Pak Relations
• Personal Narratives
• Religion Today
• War on Terror
• Role of Media
• Call for Social Change
• Hold Them Accountable
• Environment and Us
• Way of Life

• Hillary Clinton a Better Presidential Candidate
• Leaders, Heroes and Mountains
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and New American Dreams
• Pakistan Elections 2008 - An analysis
• Political Issues Ahead of Pakistan Elections