The Jinnah djinn is out to hound the BJP again. This time it is Jaswant Singh who’s courting ire from the Sangh Parivar for his book on Jinnah. Jaswant Singh’s work warrants appreciation but there’s been nothing but scorn from political circles. No politician worth his/her salt has stuck his head out favourably for Jaswant [...]
Winston Churchill once said of India – ‘ India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation like the equator ’. Churchill was also of the belief that while Pakistan would flourish, India was doomed to disintegrate and fail. Churchill, with all his hatred for India was probably talking logically. India is [...]
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s true for Physics but humans are a different ball game . How do situations get out of hand ? It’s just action and reaction and before you know it there is chaos and mayhem. I’ve often experienced the same time and again. Conflicts all [...]
For the last few days, I have been engrossed in reading ‘Temptations of the West’ by Pankaj Mishra. Mishra is from the same tribe of activist writers like Arundhati Roy, very anti-establishment. One of Mishra’s more famous travesties against the Indian state was the allegation that Hindu nationalists were behind the massacre of Chhatisinghpura in [...]
In my last post I mentioned Gandhi and non violence. Gandhi once mentioned that true non violence can be practiced by the strong, it isn’t for the weak. The strong chooses, the weak is forced. For me nothing epitomises the sentiment more so than the Khudai Khidmatgar movement.
Khudai Khidmatgar ( also known as Red Shirts [...]
Recently, in an interview English cricketer Flintoff had spoken bluntly on the issue of ‘multiculturalism’ in Britain. Flintoff felt that immigrants should try to assimilate in the English society instead of insulating themselves and staying within packs. He pointed out that the ‘bling and bang’ culture popular with Jamaicans was accentuated criminal activity and to [...]
In recent times, the world media has focused it’s view on Pakistan. Countless articles have cropped up in newspapers and magazines declaring Pakistan as the most dangerous place on Earth and warning that it’ll be taken over by the Taliban. The world watched Taliban forces come within 50-60 kms of the capital Islamabad. The Pakistani [...]
In the lands of the Pashtuns, there is an old saying –
The eyes of the dove are lovely but it’s the hawk with it’s talons that rules the sky…
It is quite ironic that this age old Pashtun saying be used to describe their present nemesis – United States of America. But, such are the [...]
Some time back I was in a debate on the impact of movies on our society, their scope of use. There were numerous arguments, the typical fare – source of entertainment, they can make education more knowledgeable , they can act as a source of educating the unlettered etc etc. There was a single argument [...]