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Google, making it sweet with Lollipop
Google unveiled its new 5.0 also known as Lollipop at its I/O in July, this year. The reception was amazing and like many others I could not wait to give it a hands-on trial. Finally on November 2,...
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‘Mission Kashmir’ and BJP’s election agenda
While riding high on the Modi wave, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the 2014 Indian general elections (parliamentary and Lok Sabha polls) and formed a stable government in New...
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Chagharzai and other valleys: An epiphany in itself
Every now and then, we hear someone singing odes to the beauty of Pakistan’s North-West regions. Be it by one of those recent sing-along tourism promos running on nearly every news network these days,...
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Why isn’t Pakistan on Obama’s travel itinerary?
Ever wondered why Pakistan is made to play a second fiddle role when it comes to US handling South Asian affairs? It’s only been a few months since Narendra Modi took office as India’s prime minister...
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Did ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ deserve the Man Booker Prize?
Richard Flanagan’s scintillating novel and winner of the coveted Man Booker Prize this year, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is a classic love-war saga. Like any other brilliant work of war fiction,...
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Four things Imran Khan did right at the Larkana rally
With success of the massive public gathering in Larkana, Imran Khan has made a knock-on effect on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Whilst everyone in the political arena was waiting for the outcome of...
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The Why Chromosome
When speaking to a friend of mine on how to treat a lady, I was fairly shocked to find that he hadn’t a clue, really. There seems to be confusion – a dearth of clear ground rules. When it comes to...
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Ferguson, a window into our own cases of police brutality
I have been arrested. I have been handcuffed. I have been put in jail. I have had a police officer put a gun against my temple in the middle of the road in Defence. I have had a police officer threaten...
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Should Musharraf’s prediction of a proxy war be taken seriously?
William Dalrymple, a British Historian, addressed the complexities of Indo-Pak proxy conflict quite effectively in his essay, A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. He discussed how their...
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Davis Cup 2014: There is no beating Roger Federer
On Sunday, November 23, 2014, history was made for Switzerland by their most prolific and magnanimous sportsman Roger Federer, when he beat Richard Gasquet to give his team an unassailable lead of 3-1...
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Don’t blame the men at home, when national leaders put women in boxes
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that men and women are not equal, because this is against human nature, the two sexes being biologically different. He bashed at feminists who,...
View ArticleSeries 2: “The Djinn” Part 5 A child of fire
Hercules ‘filtered’ through the kitchen wall one day, but it was not his unconventional entrance or his massive djinn like physique on that occasion that made me stare at him blankly. It was that I was...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I – It’s the taking part that counts
A muttering, foetal Katniss Everdeen confronts us from within the dark underbelly of District 13 in the opening shots of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I catapulting us into an unequivocal new era...
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Can the Pakistani education system stop catering to political agendas please?
The issue of school curriculum has been under discussion in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) for some time now. The 18th Amendment devolved the education sector to the provinces but that has yet to bear fruit,...
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The problem with “collateral damage” in a “surgical air-strike”
The questioning gaze of that drone victim, who lost one of his family members – with eight others injured – on the fateful day of October 24, 2012, in a drone strike at South Waziristan, still haunts...
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Do human rights activists hate Imran Khan because he is not a leftist?
The young girl who works as domestic help for me said, “Baji, do you know why our men don’t want Imran Khan to come into power? It is because they are scared that women in the villages will gain...
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India and Pakistan must stop playing with SAARCs future
So despite the extraordinary efforts of Nepal, host of the 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit, to ‘pull aside’ Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif to ‘crack the nut’ and...
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Why didn’t the Pakistan embassy stand up for Assim Abbasi?
In 2004, I travelled to Belgium to visit my uncle who was residing and doing business there. I found the people to be very welcoming, the architecture was outstanding and, of course, the world-famous...
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Is Pakistan ready to talk about sex?
I don’t want to jinx it, but there is a weekly call-in show on Health TV freely discussing a subject that has traditionally caused much controversy. Clinic Online is now taking callers’ questions...
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RIP Phillip Hughes, you will always remain unbeaten on 63
With just one week left to his 26th birthday, Phillip Hughes left the cricketing world, leaving us shocked and saddened, after having fought bravely for three days. He incurred a head injury by a Sean...
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