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By Taha Kehar With its welcome freshness of perspective, Bulbul Sharma’s Murder at the Happy Home for the Aged turns an intimate gaze on society’s flawed perceptions of old age through a

By Dr Naazir Mahmood Much to the reader’s relief, today’s article will be a digression from politics to literature. With the death of Gopal Das Neeraj in July 2018, Hindi and Urdu

By Ali Ahmed The BJP’s desperation is showing. Confronted with budding unity in the opposition, the ruling party is trotting out its election cards. This time round it is taking credit for

By Shekhar Gupta . One out of seven Indians is a Muslim. The 2021 census will see their numbers cross 20 crore. Definitely, more than one out of seven of our best

By Juggi Bhasin A close look at the history of separatist movements shows that the crux of the problem is not so much the gain of territorial control but the acknowledgement of

By Alon Ben-Meir The nearly three months of demonstrations by Palestinians along the Israel-Gaza border under the banner of the “March of Return”, which turned violent and has remained as such as

By Mehmal Sarfraz Pakistan’s general elections are over. Or are they? Well, technically the election results are in. The leading party is Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. While the process of government formation

By MUDASIR SHEIKH Winston Churchill once said “the farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see” is a perfectly suitable quote to understand the animosity of the

By Sandeep Bhardwaj The irony of today’s India is that while our politics is looking towards our history more often than ever before, we are also becoming comfortable with its constant manipulation.

By Dr Mike Ghouse India has an impeccable history of welcoming the stranger and giving refuge to the oppressed, rejected and the evicted. She has welcomed Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and the Baha’is.