On the final day of campaigning in Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was due at three massive rallies in Lahore. Crowds grew restive as they waited for ...
07:16 PM, May 23, 2013
A journalist visa is a good barometer to measure the Indo-Pak warmth or the 'heat'. If the visa comes through smoothly, know relations are hunky ...
10:28 AM, May 20, 2013
Elections in the subcontinent are always a riot of colours, but perhaps no election has quite the mix of tragedy and power that Pakistani elections ...
08:23 PM, May 10, 2013
Does Indian media place national interest above human rights? G Ananthapadmanabhan, chief executive of Amnesty International India, believes it does. At a lecture in Delhi ...
07:40 PM, May 04, 2013
Why the real game changer in Pakistan's elections could be the radical right, and why India should worry. It was a speech made with ...
07:56 AM, May 03, 2013
Fresh from three weeks of gruelling drills that involved all operational commands, the Air Force says it's ready for a two-front war (the brass prefers ...
07:39 PM, Apr 22, 2013
"Justice", the new rallying cry on the streets and in the studios, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gangrape of a Delhi girl ...
12:16 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Published in 1895, Saguna is said to be the first autobiographical novel in English written by an Indian woman; its author was Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894), ...
11:54 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Fast bowling is an expression of raw power. Proper fast bowlers are forces of nature. They always command attention. They are more animal excitement than ...
10:47 AM, Feb 01, 2013
Ironically, it was the words of the Indian Army Chief that made many journalists covering the tensions at LoC take the first pause in the ...
07:52 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Waqar Younis told the story with relish of a one-day game in 1989 when he dismissed Kris Srikkanth twice in two balls. First an lbw ...
03:59 PM, Jan 18, 2013
I must begin this review with a confession: I am an unabashed admirer of Khushwant Singh. I have known him for years and enjoyed many ...
01:02 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Over the last two decades, amid the chaos and instability, the production of thrilling fast bowlers from Pakistan has been in an eyebrow-raising regularity. Since ...
06:21 PM, Jan 10, 2013
During the panel discussion following the launch of the inaugural Wisden India Almanack, someone in the audience wanted to know why India failed to produce ...
08:09 PM, Dec 31, 2012
The last time the cricketing world witnessed the Pakistan cricket team in action was during the ICC World Twenty20 in September. They dazzled, they frustrated. ...
12:10 PM, Dec 21, 2012
The one thing that's common between the present Indian and Pakistani home ministers is that they're both wannabes who shoot off their mouths at the ...
10:45 AM, Dec 17, 2012
As Pakistani politicians go, Rehman Malik certainly stands out. A policeman who has made it up the ranks of a feudal political system, he was ...
02:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Last month, the world was shocked when the Pakistan based Taliban shot a fourteen year old girl in an assassination attempt because of her education ...
11:02 PM, Nov 22, 2012
A recent recipient of the Moortidevi Award given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith as well as the Sitara-e-Imtiaz given by the Government of Pakistan, Prof Gopichand ...
01:13 PM, Nov 20, 2012
President Zardari did the nation and Muslim Ummah proud at the UN General Assembly session when he stood tall amidst world leaders to forthrightly present ...
07:09 PM, Sep 27, 2012
