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By Gul Nukhari Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of three-time prime minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, passed away in London Tuesday. She was diagnosed with lymphoma in August 2017. She had

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta There may be growing discontent with the Narendra Modi government. The Opposition is still far from fully capitalising on it. It will have to do several things: Project

By Mehmal Sarfraz The wait is over. We finally have a messiah for prime minister. We should be jubilant. We should be overjoyed. Those of us who are critical of this government

By Manini Chatterjee The Bharatiya Janata Party has relentlessly accused its opponents of indulging in “vote-bank” politics. Any party which upholds the rights of minorities to be equal citizens of the country

By Jawed Naqvi Atal Behari Vajpayee’s ashes were immersed in the Ganga. Nehru had his scattered over the Himalayas from a plane. Theatre diva Zohra Sehgal desired no such fuss. She left

By Ruhi Tewari I The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday adopted a belligerent stance on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, on behalf of not just the party but also

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By Muna Beatty My name means “wish”, but over the years I have been called many other names that mean “black”. This is because I’m a dark-skinned woman from India. My father

By Dr Niaz Murtaza The truth is easiest to define in the physical realm. We all agree on the names of common physical objects. Those who don’t are jesters or crackpots. Scientists

By Saif Ali Khawaja Those who are familiar with Kashmir are mostly so because of its either veracities: beauty and violence. Begs the question that why do they frequently exist in a