"Kalapani"- waters – the term has an ominous ring to it in much of South Asia due to its association with the hellish colonial-era penitentiary in the Andamans.
Even while the SAARC leadership met on Bentota´s sunny beaches, India´s prime minister was being embarrassed by his insistent ally, Bombay´s don, Bal Thackeray. As part of
Must a few always suffer for the greater good? And how to deal with displacement when it becomes inevitable?
Let us take a hard look at some numbers. Between 1951
The vernacular idiom expresses emotion far better than it does reason.
Indian and Pakistani media were state-dominated to begin with. Since most of the population is not yet literate,
It would have been a revolutionary bill and a first for this part of the world. But whoever heard of parliamentarians voluntarily giving up their privileges? The Women´s Bill,
The leaders of India and Pakistan have now appropriated to themselves, as others had done before, the power that was God’s alone – to kill mountains, make the earth quake, bring the sea to boil, and destroy humanity.
EXCERPTED FROM DAWN, KARACHI, 21 MAY 1998
We can only hope that this nuclear explosion does not start an intense arms race between India and Pakistan – not to speak of
I saw on television a picture more awesome than the familiar mushroom cloud of nuclear explosion. The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by
The BJP´s nuclear misad venture is proving in comparably costlier than earlier imagined. After the worst-ever buffeting at the Conference on Disarmament, P-5 meeting and Security Council,
