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Story of Hindustani

Razia Husain   Oct 7, 2009   interacts: 352

By definition Urdu and Hindi are one language due to their grammatical structure and mutual intelligibility. There is no linguistic reason to divide them into

Mr. President, Stop the War!

Akber Choudhry   Oct 6, 2009   interacts: 177

The destruction of the Twin Towers was a fluke mass murder by a bunch of terrorists led by an evil

Afghan Widows

Mazhar Butt   Oct 6, 2009   interacts: 15

Amazed not be at the sex they sell
for their survival,
for more or less, where isn't it sold,
can anyone tell?

Author Nafisa Rizvi Talks About "The Blue Room"

Ras Siddiqui   Oct 5, 2009   interacts: 9

The idea in my book that people who cut themselves off from their roots will bleed is taken from a

An Hour at Datta Darbar

Bushra Zulfiqar   Oct 5, 2009   interacts: 34

There were loud speaker warnings about the pick pockets and jewelery theft. The shrine which reflected the beauty and sacredness of God’s love suddenly became

Book Review: The Shadow of the Great Game – The Untold Story of India’s Partition

S C   Oct 2, 2009   interacts: 300

Well-researched, demolishes many myths and presents an intriguing perspective on India Pakistan Partition

Review: The Conscience of Nhem En

Fauzia Husain   Oct 2, 2009   interacts: 2

This was a powerful film with a thought-provoking subject. The director sets up the scale and the ugliness of the genocide carried out under the

Cheap is Cool

Ejaz Haroon   Oct 2, 2009   interacts: 7

Yeah, us South Asians are a cheap bunch. There was a report on NPR this morning about how we’re rated at the bottom of the

Hey America, Come Join The Civilized World!

Dost Mittar   Sep 29, 2009   interacts: 315

The US has the least efficient healthcare system which spends most for getting the least results. So, America, come join the civilized world and save

Tree of Life

Sarah Zahid   Sep 29, 2009   interacts: 5

During those days the paint of the left wall was blistered. If you scratched it a bit, you could smell saline walls with odor of

Cartoon

Baland Iqbal   Sep 29, 2009   interacts: 2

“Papa, please help me. Look how worried I am. What has happened to me? What kind of a disease is this? No doctor has a

Uncomfortably Numb

MVJ Simon   Sep 29, 2009   interacts: 3

I see with my eyes wide open
Yet I don’t see your suffering
I hear your cry of agony
It’s just another sound to me

Aliens in Karachi

Fauzia Husain   Sep 27, 2009   interacts: 15

What if extra-terrestrials with superior intellectual faculties stumbled across our seaside metropolis? Would they get mugged, hugged or asked to tea?

Turkey – Glorious and Surprising

Abroo Shah   Sep 27, 2009   interacts: 9

Turkey has always been at the crossroads between the east and west, but today it stands at the intersection between modern and traditional as well

False Consciousness and Foreign Policy

Sangeeta Mahapatra   Sep 27, 2009   interacts: 7

How do countries think? How do they react? We often delude ourselves when we claim to know the behavior of states. So we ascribe motives

Who are the Power Elite

Muhammed Asadi   Sep 27, 2009   interacts: 112

The Power Elite does not refer to people conspiring together in a coordinated way rather it is about the dominant

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