The News International - <![CDATA[TNS_Columns]]> The News International Pakistan's Leading English Language Newspaper. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:07:04 +0500 en-US <![CDATA[The history and relevance of oath-taking]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The price of getting married]]> ]]> <![CDATA[A language by any name]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The grace of words]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Performance politics — II]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Farewell to arms]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Reclaiming refusal]]> ]]> <![CDATA[From salons to Iqbal]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Performance politics]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Personal air defence]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Lost lives of a painter]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Who owns the Taj Mahal?]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Problematic obedience]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The dear deported]]> ]]> <![CDATA[A world beyond words]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The Lahore that was]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The fragile architecture of human progress]]> ]]> <![CDATA[No thanks. I'll stay home]]> ]]> <![CDATA[From Mirza to Mirza]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The voice that carried a nation]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Exceptions as the rule]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The war on smog]]> ]]> <![CDATA[A life in lines]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Karachi's quiet cultural revival]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Past Recast: Israel's last laugh]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Delays and denials ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Viewers as curators]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Swords and sarangis]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Shadows of freedom]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Institutional conflict]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Post-colonial miniature painting]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The lost music of the rababis]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Flood money]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Democracy at crossroads:From people's power to monopoly's plaything]]> ]]> <![CDATA[The voice that shaped Pakistani cinema]]> ]]> <![CDATA[ Pink and green: Indonesia's season of reckoning]]> ]]> <![CDATA[For a livable city]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Three cheers for Ayaz Jokhio]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Limits of cultural protest]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Flood and tears]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Why the state keeps failing its people]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Letters from a lost language]]> ]]> <![CDATA[From lifelines to forgotten streams]]> ]]> <![CDATA[ The vanquished in history]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Motor workshop on wheels]]> ]]> <![CDATA[An artist's mind]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Silenced]]> ]]> <![CDATA[When confidence trumps intelligence]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Where reunification is a reality]]> ]]> <![CDATA[ Material culture]]> ]]>