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Shahzad Sharjeel

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Hook-line-sinker

THE Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of India allows persecuted minorities belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain, and Christian...

27.03.2024 90

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Doddering doyens

THIS could be a global election year, as some 60 countries are set to go to polls. Pakistan has crossed the line; India and the US will follow later....

18.03.2024 70

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Paper cuts deep

PAKISTAN, Palestine, and South Africa have much in common. The Indian subcontinent’s division, which gave birth to Pakistan, was not meant to occur...

28.02.2024 60

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House of Lord

IT is not for the first time that people are fighting over places of worship; and unfortunately, it appears not to be the last. After the consecration...

15.02.2024 70

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Blinding rage

BLINDING pretenders to the throne has been an age-old favourite in our part of the world. In addition to making the aspirant an example for other...

23.01.2024 90

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Temple template

IN a world becoming numb to desecrations, the word consecration throws one off. It means pran pratishta in Sanskrit, akin to ‘inauguration’ in...

06.01.2024 80

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Plantation drive

ELECTIONS are in the air, and potted plants are being transplanted to suitable soil with the most earthworms and compost available. Sunshine is...

26.12.2023 60

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Our own Sinai

INDIAN journalist Vir Sanghvi has raised a question. More than the directness of his query, it is the lack of outrage it caused that is more...

16.12.2023 70

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Godspeed Afghans

THERE is no getting away from them. Love them, do not love them, cannot ignore them? From the attacks across the Khyber Pass by the marauders of yore,...

21.11.2023 200

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Wafa’s keffiyeh

NOT that I earned any of the checks in its pattern, but the keffiyeh I have is not bought at the abaya and rosary shops that sprang up across the...

11.11.2023 60

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Caste in iron

DEVENDRA Gangadharrao Fadnavis, a BJP politician from Maharashtra, knows how to remain in the news. I first came across the family name ‘Phadnis’...

26.10.2023 50

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Birds and bees

THERE is definitely more to learning about the ‘birds and bees’ than its conventional connotation. Though our unbridled population growth demands...

16.10.2023 100

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Consensual census

IN his foreword to the Census of India, 1941 report, commissioner M.W.M Yeatts likened the nature of the census exercise to “a 10-year...

26.09.2023 60

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Bill of riots

BURNING utilities bills is all the rage across the country these days. Amidst stifling inflation, the choicest invective is reserved for electricity...

09.09.2023 100

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