Women in France
The greatest stride for women’s rights in the last quarter century remains the Women’s Protection Bill of 2006.
Asad Rahim Khan
Karachi at sea
The city of lights is thrashing in the dark.
Duelling nationals
The current legal framework doesn’t require an electoral bar.
Land reform now
It’s not theirs to keep, the same way it wasn’t our colonisers’ to give
‘To your temples’
For reasons legal, historical and theological, the mandir needs to be built.
Tear them down
We raise statues not to remind us of who we are, but what we could be.
Corona in Kashmir
The Modi regime looks to be pushing its final solution.
Sugar mountain
For many, it’s the same old vultures — who cares?
Ayub the First
Conservative historian Niall Ferguson somehow got it right: Ayub was the ultimate ally.
Creation myths
At long last, India cannot externalise its monsters.
Blood pardons
There must be a clear connection between crime and punishment.
Laws of occupation
India has done away with the fig leaf of Kashmir’s sham ‘accession.’
History of violence
Hazaras are killed because they are Shia. We know because their killers say so.
‘Surgical Reich’
At every step, India’s narrative was a whirl of war drums.
Hail Britannia
Britain’s denial has led to the most moronic decision in memory.
Asghar vs Aslam
The final chapter of Asghar Khan’s story has yet to be written. It all hinges on a Supreme Court case.
Not so weak
What would our history be if the judges remained passive?
Model Town case
We call the case everything except what it is — a massacre.
Another country
A country that refuses to remember its heroes can only be run by its villains.
Decline and fall
Fifteen years ago, Bush reduced Iraq to a pile of ash.