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By Farah Naqvi Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with a group of ‘Muslim intellectuals’ this week has sent the Bharatiya Janata Party into apoplexy. Muslim Appeasement! Election strategy! Secret meeting! Dividing India! Communal disharmony!

By Masood H. Kizilbash In the last 70 years, according to Ahsan I. Butt, author of Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists, there have been 163 civil wars. The sheer

By Umair Khan The increasing trend among Pakistani writers expressing themselves through English-language fiction has led to the development of a unique vernacular. It has also exposed readers to the dilemma of

By M Alsam The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is written by Arundhati Roy, the Indian prize winning author of the internationally celebrated The God of Small Things. It’s her second novel and

By Saira Agha In current times when Urdu literature seems to be in a supposed decline, and what abysmal writers of the medium are left, opt for drama serial screenplays. Writer and

By Talimand Khan As the African saying goes, “if you want to catch a lion encircle him from all direction but at least leave one outlet for your own safety in case

By Zahrah Mazhar Miansahab had arrived in the plane. The news spread after the PML-N Khyber Pakhtunkhwa general secretary came back with proof — a picture — that the plane was not

By Christophe Jaffrelot, Shweta Bhutada The recent ‘Status of Policing in India Report, 2018’ published by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the NGO Common Cause — which has

By Irfan Husain Why on earth would anybody in his right mind wish to be, nominally at least, the chief executive of a fractious, divided country like ours? Apart from problems like

By Ajaz Ashraf Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has been praised for the dignity and quiet elegance with which she shamed those who criticised her viciously for intervening in a passport matter involving