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The Mad Poet of Porapara: 1950, 2000

Shakuntala Rao

When I had first read my grandfather's diary, written in a mix of Bengali and English, Moinuddin, the baul, had stood apart and so I embarked on a journey to find him.

Sep 1, 2010   Views 708   Interacts 3

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Institutional radicalisation of public schools

Ali Chishti

Schools like those run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (a new name for LeT), which received Punjab government’s funding of Rs 30 million, systematically replaced the mainstream curriculum.

Sep 1, 2010   Views 3166   Interacts 87

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Walev Yeav Wapas

Gowhar Geelani

There is no communal disharmony in Kashmir. Only circumstances have been challenging and the going has been hard and tough. Today, I once again extend an invitation to all of them. Please come back. 'Walev Yeav Wapas'!

Aug 29, 2010   Views 5018   Interacts 167

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Requiem for Pakistan Cricket

Ayesha Umar

Irrespective of the result of ongoing Test match (which might be abandoned) the match fixing allegation is a huge stigma on the face of Pakistan cricket.

Aug 29, 2010   Views 2782   Interacts 61

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Pakistan’s Human Cockroaches

Fasi Zaka

We blame our ill-educated brethren for the barbarity we witness, but that’s a self-serving lie. If you believe Jews are the scum of earth, Ahmadis deserve to die or that Hindus are inferior, well then why not two teenage boys?

Aug 27, 2010   Views 7651   Interacts 205

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Hell, Thy Name is Pakistan!

Mutaal Mooquin

The spreading culture of killings, corruption and ignorance make people think that it’s OK to kill people of different faith, ideas and behaviour; it is also OK if people take things in their own hands.

Aug 27, 2010   Views 2286   Interacts 32

Politics

Phoenix Rising for Musharraf?

Irshad Salim

Restive but now flood-ravaged Balochistan is on payyah jam. Fire, bullets and now water engulf the Baloch - reminiscent of the cyclone Bhola in 1970 that devastated Bangladesh and pushed the angry Eastern half of Pakistan over the edge - a year later to

Aug 27, 2010   Views 2083   Interacts 67

Current Affairs

Raped Maoist Quits Revolution

M Singh

She joined the Maoists at age of seventeen; will surrender on August 26th and let the world know how the women comrades have been treated in the vast jungles under brutal control of the ultras.

Aug 26, 2010   Views 2317   Interacts 59

Religion Today

My daughter’s Azan

Ibrahim Malick

If my daughters and nieces can work on much needed vaccines and investigate the optimal sources of energy, why can’t they also lead mixed gender prayers? Why can’t they recite Azan?

Aug 26, 2010   Views 8808   Interacts 462

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Altaf Hussain’s Call to Army Generals

saeed qureshi

Altaf Hussain has addressed the army generals because there is no other institution in the country that possesses the coercive power to clean the “Augean Sables” of unprecedented filth and scum.

Aug 25, 2010   Views 11885   Interacts 540

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