The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
In the first part of this column yesterday, we discussed a brief history of Japan and the role of prime minister Nakasone in the 1980s. As Japan had...
Two of the prominent Japanese personalities who died in 2019 were Nakasone and Nakamura. Both of them came to prominence in the 1980s: Nakasone as...
Mandate is a sort of an authorization, given by the electorate to its representatives, to act on public issues. In functioning democracies, mandate...
By From 1948 to 1956, Raziya was alone in Lucknow taking care of her three daughters, teaching, writing and translating to earn a meagre livelihood....
When Shaukat Kaifi died in November 2019 at the age of 93, another prominent woman of the Progressive Writers Association movement of India, Razia...
Imagine a killer – rather a mass killer – being enthusiastic about re-enacting his crimes: kidnappings, tortures, strangulations, and dumping of...
In part one of this column yesterday, we started discussing Allan Bloom and Harold Bloom and their writings. In his book ‘The Closing of the...
