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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

Ominous clouds over Pakistan

Once again the tolling of bells resonates the past in a more sweeping but bizarrely sophisticated manner. Since the inception of this state, the people’s right to self-rule had been ravaged in…
March 28, 2018

Operation Bluestar had British Hands?

By Kuldip Nayar The British government has rejected a petition by the Sikh community in London to make public all papers concerning Operation Bluestar. Margaret Thatcher, then British Prime Minister, was close…
March 27, 2018

Defeating Ambedkar

By Manini Chatterjee The BharatiyaJanata Party president, Amit Shah, gave a spate of interviews to different television channels last week, days after the shock defeat of his party in the by-elections to…
March 27, 2018

What you see on FB, Twitter is twisted, and how

By Ravi VisvesvarayaSharada Prasad For years, social scientists have claimed that social media platforms would lead to greater social and political awareness and understanding, by providing easy access to multiple points of…
March 27, 2018

Frequent Internet Blockade!

By Umair Rashid Whenever encounters between government forces and militants happen in Kashmir, the government promptly blocks mobile internet services in the region. The move, as always, is to apparently prevent the…
March 27, 2018

Desperate times for Pakistan

By Zaigham Khan There is too much desperation in the air. It is hard to find an actor who is not gripped by the fear of the unknown, and feeling desperate as…
March 27, 2018

A contrapuntal archive

Contemporary Pakistani English fiction is beginning to make an immense critical and contrapuntal contribution to the reality of Pakistani life and how it is perceived by outsiders. An emerging brand of Pakistani…
March 25, 2018

Subtle Realism

Only recently, when I finished reading HasanManzar’s book Habs, did I understand the term ‘writer’s writer’. As Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, said, “A self is not something static…
March 25, 2018

Leap of Faith

Avshok Chopra — author, book editor, publisher, columnist and now a novelist — is a man of many facets. A voracious reader with a remarkable memory and the ability to recall what…
March 25, 2018
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