Category: 1. Pakistan

For a man who was still his country’s prime minister four years ago, life today in Pakistan could hardly be more desolate for Imran Khan. Languishing in Rawalpindi’s Adiala prison, the 73-year-old cricket icon…

Meherunnesa’s life, though brief, burned with rare intensity. A poet of fierce empathy and unyielding conviction, she emerged as a fearless voice during the turbulent decades leading to Bangladesh’s independence. Born in 1942 in Khidirpur, she…

IT’S 1PM ON a weekday at the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya, or the Prime Ministers’ Museum & Library (PMML), in Delhi. Inside the refurbished Teen Murti Bhavan—now Building One of the museum and once the home of India’s first prime minister,…

Firdous Khan

Some individuals devote their entire lives to serving society and humanity, rising above personal needs and ambitions and never thinking of self-comfort. Rafiq Ahmad, a resident of Indri in…

For much of his younger years, writer and essayist Aatish Taseer had been plagued by the thought of not being sufficiently Indian. Although he was born in England, Taseer was raised largely in India, behind the ramparts, as it were –…