opinion
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Banning books - Part - I
Dr Naazir Mahmood
Imposing bans on books or restricting their circulation has a long history. Civilizations have witnessed destructions of libraries numerous times in history, from the library of Alexandria to the...
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Modi’s Kashmir blunder
Amanat Ali Chaudhry
August 5 will be remembered in history as the day when the BJP government led by RSS-trained and Hindutva-inspired Narendra Modi robbed Kashmiris of their special status and identity by abrogating...
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The state does not care
Orubah S Ahmed
The state does not care about women during Covid-19. It simply has no reason to. For one, there is no unified, massive public demand that compels it to.Nobody wants to listen to a feminist...
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Can America escape the Kindleberger Trap?
Muhammad Abdul Basit
Donald J Trump has decided to pull America out of the World Health Organization . This is not the first decision by him to lead the US to get off the way of liberalism. As the US is stripping itself...
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Cellphone mania
Iftekhar A Khan
The cellphone has become part of everyone’s life. The little gadget appears so inextricably glued to everyone’s ear that it appears to form an important limb of the body. Use of the cellphone...
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Future Earth
Eve Ottenberg
The only good thing to say about Covid is that it caused carbon emissions to drop. Not enough to save humanity from catastrophic climate change, but significantly.At the height of the global...
