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Recent Columns.

30 Jun 2023

Canceling Equity

The reason for the mass resignation: harassment and a toxic work environment they say was created by two newly elected Republican members of the county council.

2 Jun 2023

An Indiana Inquisition

Todd Rokita, Indiana's ultra-conservative attorney general, had filed the complaint in 2022—quite obviously to punish Bernard, who had performed the procedure...

24 May 2023

Too many people...

A FEW weeks ago, India reached the dubious milestone of becoming the most populous country in the world. According to the UN estimates, India’s population reached 1.4 billion in late April, overtaking China’s figures which used to be the highest in the world.

19 May 2023

Trump the Defamer

Trump the Defamer ... The day after a Manhattan jury held Donald J. Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll nearly three decades...

1 May 2023

Pills, Politics, and Pence

The renewed abortion pill fight now seems to be Pence's ticket to showing himself as a man of conviction. Pence has been struggling for relevance as other...

10 Mar 2023

Women’s Equality—When?

Collusion, silent or otherwise, in inequity requires moral accountability. So it must be with the resistant men who deny women their due and the men who talk...

1 Mar 2023

Desperate to reach foreign shores

It is a depressing truth that while the rich party on in Pakistan, the poor are bereft of hope.

24 Feb 2023

More American Carnage

Every week the list of dead women gets longer. A pattern of “ego killings” emerges.

14 Feb 2023

Deeper in Debt

Austerity Blues ... The IMF has wanted Pakistan to restructure the debt, but China is reluctant to do so. China could bail Pakistan out by suspending or, better...

20 Jan 2023

Traveling While White

The white woman traveler (newly reinvented as a morally noble believer in the kindness of strangers and the healing balm of world travel) is happily reviving a...

18 Jan 2023

Brain games

The exodus is not a bad thing. Pakistan's beleaguered and shrinking economy is not producing jobs at a rate that can employ...

3 Jan 2023

The Crows of Karachi

To depict a loveless and macabre world—a world of the scarecrow acting as the Lord of blood-thirsty crows, of the harridan decked out as a beauty queen...

25 Aug 2023

Lock him up

In Pakistan, political prosecution is an everyday tactic.
HE IS BEING WATCHED, even when he uses the toilet. Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is currently being held in a small dark room in...

23 Aug 2023

A split world

Aid makes countries like Pakistan dependent for as long as Western countries make it impossible for them to compete fairly in the global market.

16 Aug 2023

Stepping over a dying man

The work of Sherpa guides who often go up ahead of the climbers has historically been erased even from the records of mountain climbing.

28 Jul 2023

Passports and Power

The passports that have brought more opportunity for their kids and grandkids have defeated their own dreams of returning to a happy home. They cannot...

26 Jul 2023

The fires in Europe

The rescue missions being undertaken for wealthy tourists show what can be done when there is true intention for life to be saved.

19 Jul 2023

Moon and power

Indian and South Asian engineers' qualifications stand equal to their Western counterparts in complex missions.

16 Jul 2023

In a war-torn and forgotten country, there is little anyone can do for Afghan women

A new generation of Afghan women, who have spent their lives under US occupation and now under Taliban oppression, is starved of hope for a better future.

14 Jul 2023

The Dutiful Wife

Written in lipstick on his back are the words “1 fat Englishman. I fuck anything.” The words are the handiwork of his then wife Hilly, who had learned that her...

More Columns.

2 December 2020

In a first, Twitter flags BJP leader's post as ‘manipulated media’ | DAWN

Twitter has labelled a tweet by the IT head of India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as "manipulated media".

2 December 2020

Desperate in Dubai | DAWN

A FEW months ago, The Guardian ran the story of a 30-year-old Pakistani man named Hassan, one of 99 Pakistanis who have been stranded in Dubai ever since the pandemic began in a largely abandoned labour camp on the outskirts of the city. They have no money and no way to return home. Lately, they have begun begging for...

25 November 2020

Visas of the future | DAWN

WE are in the darkness before dawn. There is hope: one, two and now three vaccine candidates have been found to be efficacious against the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the world. Alas, the availability of the vaccine, close as it may be, has failed to curb the spread of the disease. Numbers are rising everywhere and the threat of new restrictions locally and globally is very real.

20 November 2020

Mad MAGA Men | The Baffler

Rage against the voting machines and floofy dresses on right-wing radio

19 November 2020

Il femminismo dimenticato dalla storia del Pakistan e dell’India

L’effetto di cancellazione storica operato sia in epoca coloniale sia in quella postcoloniale è tale che oggi le ragazze e le donne in Pakistan sanno poco o nulla delle pioniere del femminismo.

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