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Why Not Abolish Money! – (II)

BY JANET SURMAN Gross pay, to a certain extent, appeases workers because they perceive themselves to be earning more than they are, although they also...

Iran’s Dead Poets Society: As Pen Dares the Sword

BY ROBERT FISK In Iran, there should be a Dead Poets Society. Or perhaps a Martyred Poets Society, with its newest member a certain Arab-Iranian...

Subcontinent’s Cycles

BY HUSSAIN NADIM “The Empire, long divided, must unite: long united, must divide.” The classical quote from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong captures...

Why Not Abolish Money! – (I)

BY JANET SURMAN We humans have always worked to support our life; worked to catch, grow and produce our food, to make our shelter, our...

Quality Deficit in India’s Education Politics

BY KALPANA SHARMA Thanks to the unfortunate and virtually relentless reports of sexual violence against women in different parts of the country, the question of...

Is the Tide Turning Against Israel?

BY JONATHAN COOK Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a...

When the State Is In Cahoots With Vandals

BY AG NOORANI THE media is a powerful institution with a fragile base. It depends on public opinion for support against the state and any...

Fascists Are Not In Power Yet, and You Have Succumbed?

BY ARUNDHATI ROY Everybody is shocked at what you have gone and done - at your out-of-court settlement with an unknown Hindu fanatic outfit -...

Faiz as Editor

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An Ice Age for Indian Scholarship

BY APOORVANAND These are lonely times for scholarship in India. TheShiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti( SBAS) has claimed yet another scalp in the form of the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s...

Fake encounters: The expendable Kashmiri

By Mirza Waheed On January 23, the Indian Army passed a not-guilty ruling in the Pathribal Case of 2000 in which five civilians were executed...

Pathribal: Force Dictates the Course of Justice

BY CHRISTINE MEHTA Abdul Rasheed is the son of Juma Khan, one of the five Kashmiri villagers killed in the infamous fake encounter at Pathribal...

The Jama’at-Geelani Property Row: Confusion or Confrontation? – (II)

BY MUDASIR WANI Two points become clear from the foregoing discussion: that there is a strong connection between Geelani Sahib and the Jama’at in the...

From the Ruins – (II)

BY SAROOP IJAZ To celebrate the culture of Sindh through a festival named the Sindh Festival does not create any provincial divisions; on the contrary,...

Battle of Tours…Muslim divisiveness lead to reverses in France

Golden Mein: By Dr. Javid Iqbal Just like the French reverses in ‘Battle of Waterloo’ a battle that settled the Anglo-French confrontation with Nelson dealing the decisive blow...

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