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By Nasir Abbas Nayyar History can sometimes be callous, brushing aside the services of those considered ‘great’ in their times. But, in a few cases, it might even be blind, when it

By Sara Zubair Imagine, if you will, that a story is a creature. Human, animal, or something else, it doesn’t matter. Just a creature that is being asked to do the author’s

By Rizwan Ahmad In Karan Johar’s 2010 Bollywood film My name is Khan, the main protagonist Rizwan Khan (played by Shah Rukh Khan) a young man suffering from Asperger syndrome, insists that

By Sweta Akundi Did you hear about that gorilla who pops up at strange places in the city — sneaking inside a garage in Adyar, plopping down on the terrace of a

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi I am yet to read Laura Dassow Walls’s acclaimed 2017 biography of Henry David Thoreau. But from what I have been able to gather, it is kin to Ramachandra

By Patralekha Chatterjee Are citizens and dissenters two separate groups of people? How far will ordinary people be willing to resist when confronted with situations not to their liking? What role does

By Saad Hafiz It is probably naïve to expect that peace between India and Pakistan will dawn anytime soon. Events over the last few weeks have confirmed that the unending cycle of

Nadia Murad survived the worst cruelties inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, before becoming a global champion of their cause and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. On Friday, Murad and

By Tani Khara India has a reputation as a vegetarian nation, and Indians certainly consume far less meat than the global average. But the view of India as a predominantly vegetarian nation

By Shiv Viswanathan Dissent today is one of the most critical acts of democracy. There is an element of critical risk, and yet it is presented like a slice of drawing room