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Statesmanship, not brinkmanship

By Sandeep Bhardwaj It is a sign of how accustomed India has got to the perennial Kashmir crisis that the municipal elections held in Jammu and Kashmir recently, which saw near-zero voter
Oct. 20, 2018

The politics of renaming

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay The Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj close on the heels of Mughalsarai railway station being named after Sangh Parivar icon, Deendayal Upadhyay, is nothing but
Oct. 20, 2018

Patriarchy in the workplace

By Saundarya Rajesh According to the ‘Handbook of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace, (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013’, issued by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, a work
Oct. 20, 2018
Afghan refugees living in Pakistan wait to get their documents to travel back to Afghanistan, at the UNHCR's Repatriation Center, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Pakistani officials said that without the help from the international community it is hard for Pakistan to take care of the 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees, and about as many undocumented, living in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Migrant and nation

By  Khaled Ahmed On Sunday, September 16, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that he would start “work immediately” on providing passports to the children of refugees born in Pakistan. He might soon
Oct. 20, 2018

Silence speaks volumes

By Shabana Mahfooz As early as I can remember the 9o’ clock khabarnama at the Pakistan Television (PTV), its association with the fact that the content has always remained under the government’s
Oct. 19, 2018

The Anthropocene

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Over the past week, two events have taken place beyond our borders that ought really to have found more space in our political and intellectual mainstream, seeing that
Oct. 19, 2018

Royal chopping of dissent

By Talimand Khan The lurid details of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder emerging in the press, put to shame all the previous terminologies and metaphors of savagery, mostly attributed to the so called dark
Oct. 19, 2018
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