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By Shyam Saran Post-Pulwama developments in Kashmir are deeply disturbing. The fact that the terrorist attack on the Central Reserve Police Force convoy was carried out by a local Kashmiri youth should

By Shiv Visvanathan One of the things I miss in the age of TV and digital news is the presence of the storyteller. Maybe it is an old-fashioned need, but I miss

By Ajai Sahni If you question the manifestly false information put out by the government and the ruling party, you are insulting the Indian armed forces; if you ask for evidence, you

By Ahmed Rashid India and Pakistan don’t have to be on the brink of war. Negotiators painstakingly put together a way out of the crisis and a road map for resolution of

By Maryam Saeed, Sehyr Mirza The seventh edition of Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) last month at the Alhamra Arts Centre, featuring seventy-five sessions on literature, arts, culture and music, over the span

By RakhshandaJ alil “… as a writer or an artist, even though I run no state and command no power, I am entitled to feel that I am my brother’s keeper, and

By Ammar Ali Qureshi Literary legend Khushwant Singh was arguably the most celebrated and prolific Indian writer of the 20th century. Born in Hadali in Sargodha district in undivided Punjab in 1915,

By Ajai Shukla The captured Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot is back home, cross border firing on the Line of Control (LoC) is reducing and India’s military has publicly “committed to maintaining

By SHABBIR AARIZ Following the partition of India in the year 1947, Jamat-e-Islami, an Islamic organization, split into three independent organizations in India, Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir. In Jammu and Kashmir,

By Sidharth Bhatia Patriotism is in the air. Literally. Air India, the national carrier, has been instructed to use ‘Jai Hind’ after every on-board announcement on every flight. Naturally, this decision has