Ministry-BB razi toh kya karega kazi? BlackBerry has got a 60-day reprieve from its sentence of death by ‘decryptation’, though insiders say that it was the...
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Let's not confuse entitlements with rights
Politicians and activists constantly propose new rights — the right to work, to education, and now to food. The word "rights" is being twisted to mean...
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Baradar - Our vote goes to the ISI
Back in March 2010, Indian officials were aware that Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had been picked up by the ISI who conned the CIA into helping...
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Pak must rise above the flood of prejudice
More than 15 million people hang precariously between life and death in the face of the biggest natural calamity to strike Pakistan in decades. As the flood...
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A valley riven by anger & history
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief, was commissioned in August 1971. The other four-star general in the Pakistan army, Tariq Majeed, is due to retire on...
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The contents of about 91,000 classified US documents relating to the Afghan war for the period January 2004-December 2009 posted by WikiLeaks at its website...
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(This is a travel piece) When I got to Stockholm, all of Sweden seemed closed. It was June 23, the day when Sweden goes on holiday to celebrate the summer...
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Caught out between covering up and baring it all
The first inspiration for this post came as I was preparing for a Brazilian-themed party thrown by my best friend, and compatriot, in London. She was...
We are the best and we love it
When the British prime minister, David Cameron, comes visiting India with a high-power business and political delegation this week, he will be armed with a very...
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As a child growing up in Ahmedabad, Africa was a continent without cities for me. Nations yes, but no cities. Africa was Kruger, the Serengeti, the only other...
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