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Cauldron to inferno
Since 1948, the State Bank of Pakistan has seen off 19 governors.
F.S. Aijazuddin
War and property
Throughout the tortuous negotiations ran a golden vein of poetry.
Filling a blank
For modern voters, the most potent blank is still the virgin surface of the ballot paper.
Quit home, go home
One day, rational Indians will regret remaining silent today.
NON-FICTION: STONES WITH STORIES TO TELL
A sumptuously produced book of photographs is an ode to world civilisations and the known and anonymous ancient
Scrap of paper
An emboldened Modi will do exactly what he wants.
A foreign past
They lived in our shared past. They will never see our divided future.
Water wars
Roads can be halted at the border, but who owns flowing water?
Unjustifiable ends
Pakistan can take comfort; it is no longer India’s only enemy.
Twisted coffins
Precedents in history make undependable blueprints for the future.
Ballots & blood
India has suddenly found itself tarred.
$20bn glass slipper
The MBS visit euphoria needs to be put into perspective.
Political surrogacy
Drafters of the 18th Amendment thought they had a fool-proof method.
The accidental PM
The film provides a tempting analogy to our own political condition.
Heads or tails
Soon, it shall be another hot summer of discontent.
Weight of handcuffs
Have we really sunk to this depth of civic depravity?
Caveat, Caesar
Politicians in opposition are fearful at the cadavers of their past misdeeds being disinterred.
A second Nuremberg
Future generations will wonder why we condone brutality.
Alive and kicking
Our new government, like all its predecessors, wants a pliant media.
Our past and Pest
The paintings have been languishing in an airless chamber.