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Sunday December 10, 2023
Mir Adnan Aziz

  • November 17, 2023

    Legoland

    Michael Dobbs wrote "House of Cards" almost 30 years ago after an argument with then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, for whom he had been chief of...

  • October 17, 2023

    An unending tragedy

    A plume of smoke rises in the sky of Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9, 2023. — AFPPalestine was never an empty piece of real...

  • October 08, 2023

    India’s carte blanche

    The Arthashastra, Chanakya’s 4BCE Sanskrit exposition, is a book on statecraft that introduced an empire-running module expounding upon...

  • September 20, 2023

    The Hobbesian mindset

    One of the most influential political philosophers John Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract and religious toleration in the...

  • September 04, 2023

    Mr PM, I disagree

    Mr Prime Minister, a student delegation from Harvard University sat down with you on August 26. We were graced with the prime ministerial part of...

  • August 15, 2023

    What to the slave?

    Slavery has persisted through the ages. It is a heart-wrenching saga for the inhumanity and tragedy it entails.Aristotle and Plato are considered...

  • July 27, 2023

    The ever vulnerable

    Natural phenomena have since forever challenged and threatened humankind. In doing so, they have served as imperatives to create means and measures...

  • July 11, 2023

    The quest for immortality

    The quest for immortality has been as timeless as it has been fruitless. First recorded over 4000 years ago on the Babylonian Tablets, it narrates...

  • June 19, 2023

    Bodyguard of lies

    “In wartime”, Churchill famously told Stalin at Tehran in 1943, “truth is so precious that she must always be attended by a bodyguard of...

  • June 03, 2023

    Turkiye through the ages

    History remembers Emperor Constantine as one who legalized and made Christianity integral to the Roman Empire. He is also credited with laying the...