BANGLADESH: Rainmaker
Where the State fails, BRAC comes in to fill the void. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed’s model represents a new paradigm of development
Sanjay Kapoor Dhaka
World
BANGLADESH: The Quagmire of History
A search for historical facts has become an act of treason and prejudice in Bangladesh
Afsan Choudhury Dhaka
BANGLADESH: HOPE FLOATS
There is a new verve of change and empowerment in the air in ‘secular’ Bangladesh. And India’s creative engagement can mark a turning point
Sanjay Kapoor Dhaka
The culturing of cuisine
“Your staple diet must be idlis and dosas?” was the rhetorical question from a cheery young waiter at Lahore’s Pearl Intercontinental when he learned I was from India. My prompt protest that, being from Delhi, I ate food similar to what was being served in the expansive breakfast buffet failed to convince him. “This is what we have been told. Try our nihari and halim. I am sure you would not get it in India, which I hear is vegetarian,” he went on.
Kreisky’s legacy for Palestine
In leaderless times like today, people like Bruno Kreisky are missed most.
Night in Slow Motion
The Tao of travel means that all night you can chase the moving flicker of lights on the zigzag pathways of distant, dark, dense mountain nights, and your eyes and mind are still aching for more.
Homeless in Gaza
Israel started the current escalation in violence. The rockets from Gaza came later
AK Pasha Delhi
On the Road between Iran and Us
As we embarked on a 10 day road trip across the north-west of Iran, the travel plan that never was, had somehow fallen in place
Priya Krishnamoorthy
Army of the ‘Pure’
Pakistan’s minorities in the armed forces do not constitute even a fraction of their population in the country – by choice and official diktat
Noorilhuda Karachi
Kingdom of Fear
Where do we, who dream of a progressive and enlightened Pakistan, belong in this landscape that is increasingly dominated by rightist Islamists, who have embraced militancy and sectarianism?
Ghazi Salahuddin Karachi