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The Kathua rape case, as suggested by the chargesheet, was a pre-planned rape of a child with the object of terrorising and evicting a particular community from a particular region. The refusal…

Amid belligerent demands for capital punishment for rapists, on Sunday the President signed an ordinance that introduces the death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12. But…

The Indian Constitution has, among several unwritten basic human rights, the right to have miracles performed unto people. One miracle is that politicians must take care not to practise politics; rather, they…

I HAVE often been to farewell parties for retiring civil servants that closely resemble funerals where the outgoing official is the corpse being laid to rest. Almost invariably, his colleagues present him…

YET again they were singing and reciting Faiz. Elsewhere they perhaps do the same with Sri Sri, Kazi Nazrul, Pash, Robin Ngangom or other revolutionary versifiers in different Indian languages. An announcement…

“America is the friend of all Iraqi people.” This was the sign put up at Abu Ghraib prison – one that replaced Saddam’s portrait when the US took it over as part…

Ijaz Hussain, former dean of Social Sciences and chairman of the International Relations Department, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, has accomplished a monumental undertaking with the publication of Indus Waters Treaty: Political and…

Dr Allama Iqbal, a Sialkot born philosopher and poet, studied literature, law and philosophy at Government College at Lahore, Cambridge University, and then did his PhD atthe University of Munich. Eighty years…

I started this review by saying I thought this was a crime book, which it isn’t. But it has all the suspenseful uncovering of the murdered person’s personality and character that the…

London-based Jamal Merchant recently launched his debut novel ‘One Enduring Lesson’. Priced at Rs 295, the 274 pager novel brings his protagonist Rahul Saxena to his Indian roots as he travels Mumbai…