The 12th August 1948 Babarra massacre is by now a forgotten yet an essential part of our national past as are the cold blooded elimination of the sons of Sardar … Read More
The democracy of yore was infused with a commitment to values of truth, human freedom and rights and social welfare. Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest liberals and champions of … Read More
Of the seven lectures that Dr Allama Iqbal delivered in Muslim congregations in Madras, Hyderabad and Aligarh in the late 1920s and which were subsequently published in 1930 in a … Read More
There is so much that is dichotomous and contradictory in society and the economy. Despite backbreaking inflation there is no shortage of goods, be they necessities or luxuries, in our … Read More
A security state is one which perceives a threat to its national survival or danger to its sovereign existence resulting in a preponderant diversion of national resources towards security versus … Read More
The Federal Budget 2024-25 faces the same old dilemmas of balancing revenues and expenditures, containing current account deficit and inflation. Targeted budgetary deficit of 6.5% may actually end up around … Read More
Mughal history of Hindostan has several dimensions: it was one of the richest and most glorious kingdoms, spanning no less than 200-250 years in its heyday, matching, shoulder to shoulder, … Read More
After consolidating, although as yet tentatively, his hold over much of central and eastern Hindustan, vanquishing the redoubtable Rajput Raja, Rana Sangha at Kanwa (March 1527) and other formidable foes, … Read More
It may seem outré: something in our psycho-historical and mental configuration places us in the sphere of an epicurean, consumerist society, public policy in tow with its peculiar economic consequences. … Read More
The title of this script appears phantasmagoric. But when unraveled, a distinct, underlying thread becomes lucid from the apparent palaver. Although two of these, the ongoing Gaza … Read More
