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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…

RSS Flip Flop on Army Mobilisation!

It was euphoria among the Services in general and in Army Headquarters in particular on Feb 12, 2018, for the front page news, at least in one of the national level newspapers,…
February 17, 2018

Encumbrance of Ancestors

“The teaching of the Qur’an that life is a process of progressive creation necessitates that each generation, guided but unhampered by the work of its predecessors, should be permitted to solve its…
February 16, 2018

Time: The Ever-Diminishing Capital

“By time. Indeed man is in loss. Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth, and recommend one another to patience.” (Al-Qur’an, 103) This…
February 16, 2018

War Is Not the Answer

The Day After, a 1983 film, was set in the scenario of a nuclear showdown between the US and the erstwhile USSR. Instead of painting the story on a global canvas, director…
February 16, 2018

Golden oldies

One of the commonplace but disconcerting things about growing older is that public figures, famous men and women, grow younger. Watching RaghuramRajan being interviewed in Davos, I googled him and discovered that…
February 16, 2018

It’s vendetta in Dhaka

The general election in Bangladesh is due in December this year and the leader of the main Opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, has been jailed…
February 16, 2018

The danger of counterfactuals

In democracies, citizens have a right to know why, where and how the government spends public money. Each year we, therefore, await the Prime Minister’s response to the President’s address in the…
February 15, 2018

People’s Movements in Pakistan

Challenging colonial rule, in 1936, Allama Iqbal wrote a Masnavi ‘Pas che bayed kard ai aqwam e Sharq’ (What shall we do now O people of the East?). This is the question…
February 15, 2018

Hugs just aren’t enough

The hug-and-talk diplomacy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day West Asia and Gulf tour from February 10 to 12 actually began in Amman, the capital of Jordan, from where his Royal Jordanian…
February 15, 2018
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