Opinion - Page 121

By Bhushan Parimoo A long cherished desire to participate in the celebration of Mata Baderkali festival at Handwara, Kashmir was at last realised. The Mata Baderkali Sathapan Committee made it possible for…

By Ajay Gudavarthy Prime Minister Narendra Modi has maintained stoic silence over the most pressing issues that have been debated in the last few weeks and this has remained his style for…

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat The incidents of lynching, killing and abusing the opponents particularly of the Muslims in India have become a norm and the country seems to be either satisfied with…

By Nasir Abbas Nayyar Any virtuoso in the art of poetry will confirm that words in poetry tend to overrun their common, ordinary meanings into a surfeit of nuances and significance. And…

By Harris Khalique Muhammad Hasan Askari has always intrigued me as a formidable scholar, writer and critic. But his conceptualisation and promotion of ‘Pakistani Adab’ [Pakistani literature based on a Muslim cultural…

By Shahzada Rahim Jean-Paul Sartre through his writings had elaborately explained the unbridgeable divide between postcolonial and anti-colonial struggle. But he presented a different nature of post-colonial theory and was extensively concerned…

By Madiha Akhtar A remote location, an isolated hotel, 12 strangers, no connection with the outside world and one murder: this is the premise of Shari Lapena’s latest thriller, An Unwanted Guest.…

By SHEKHAR GUPTA National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval is being unfairly attacked for saying, in his Sardar Patel Memorial lecture Thursday, that for the next 10 years India needs to be…

By Ali Khan Mahmudabad In the Analects of Confucius, one of his disciples, Tsze-Lu, asks Master Confucius what the first thing he intends to do before administering the territory belonging to the…

By Neera Chandhoke It is time to re-read the politically charged play, The House of Bernarda Alba, (1936) by Federico García Lorca. After their father’s death, five young women are forced to…