Articles with tag: Delhi
Dilli Dur Ast
Shoaib Daniyal Oct 24, 2008 interacts: 22The area around the dargah itself was a typical Muslim mohallah of the type also seen in Central Calcutta. Narrow dingy lanes with a profusion of small hotels.
Delhi Under Fright, Innocent Targeted
aditya uppal Sep 13, 2008 interacts: 255Today evening on 13th of September around 6’o clock bomb blasts took place at prime time in markets. The first attack took place at Karol Bagh, Gafar market.
Secret Life of Gays in New Delhi
Mayank AustenSoofi Nov 21, 2007 interacts: 16On all other days, Pegs N Pints is "normal" - strictly straight. But on Tuesday evenings as the clock struck ten, queers start trickling out of their closets.
Ragging: A Sickness in our Educational System and Society
Rohit Chopra Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 2Several incidents of ragging have been reported at Indian colleges, some involving acts of brutal violence perpetrated on helpless first year students by groups of senior students.
Artificial Rains
Gaurav Bhardwaj Jul 9, 2007 interacts: 2According to metrology people the monsoons had halted at Allahabad for more than usual leaving Delhi parched and thirsty.
A Devastated Metropolis
Ozer Khalid Oct 31, 2005 interacts: 105Plots and skirmishes have footnoted the sub-continent’s history, warmongering coupled with bomb blasts sometimes provide the punctuation. The question is can we as a South Asian people stem the tide and end this feudal-frenzied animosity through cro
Bomb Blasts in Delhi
Chowk Staff Oct 30, 2005 interacts: 431A series of bomb went off in Delhi on Oct 29th, three days before the festival of Diwali.
Deliciously Delhi
Ras Siddiqui Feb 18, 2005 interacts: 70Food and history are something that both Delhi and Lahore have in common.
They Shoot Kashmiri Pandits, Dont They?
Farzana Versey Mar 29, 2003 interacts: 269They say they will act as a “buffer against the export of jehad into India”. They who ran away?
Creation of Hindu ’madrasas’
Rasheed Talib Dec 26, 2002 interacts: 125Is this the sort of education we Indians want in our school system?
The Kashmir Committee: Ram in U.S
Romeet K Watt Dec 14, 2002 interacts: 17Ram Jethmalani, to further the agenda of KC, recently made a trip to US
The Unmaking Of Gujrat
Farzana Versey Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 263The key players in these elections and therefore Indian polity seem like characters in a drama of the absurd.
Shadowlines (Part I)
Rehan Ansari Jun 30, 2002 interacts: 181Ehsan Jafri was killed, his decapitated head carried around the streets.
Empty Vessels And All That Jazz
Zeemax Feb 2, 2002 interacts: 204do you think he is up to task to rid us of feudals next?
The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond
Revathy Gopal Jan 26, 2002 interacts: 555Osama bin Laden has his own vision of a perfect world and millions will die
Indian Diplomacy : Time To Recheck
Amit Mathur Jan 4, 2002 interacts: 25The year saw a marked upswing in new Delhi’s relations with the US, Russia, Japan, Germany and France
Running Naked
Anwar Iqbal Dec 25, 2001 interacts: 359Looking at the current India, Pakistan conflict as Manto would have
The Passion of The Pacifist
Farzana Versey Dec 20, 2001 interacts: 56An interview with Asgharali Engineer
The Laying to Waste of the World: a Memory of I.H Burney
Rehan Ansari Nov 8, 2001 interacts: 585Anything is better than Bhutto, he said
Whither Democracy?
Aqil Shah Nov 2, 2001 interacts: 377Musharraf appears to have killed two birds with one stone
Coming Home to a Foreign Land
Kirtida Oza Jul 29, 2001 interacts: 567Kirtida Oza recently crossed the border from Ahmedabad for a three week trip to Pakistan
The Winds of Change
Irfan Husain May 21, 2001 interacts: 396When the world’s only superpower changes direction, smaller states, especially those located on the periphery of potential conflict, have to be nimble in adjusting their policies.
The Chicken Hawks Of Pakistan
Feroz R Khan May 7, 2001 interacts: 422The military should accept the fact that it is a dictatorship
Our Blind Nuclear Prophets
Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 3, 2001 interacts: 231why did Indian and Pakistani defence budgets go up, rather than down, after the May 1998 tests?
A Different Story
Feroz R Khan Oct 27, 2000 interacts: 291The winds of change are slowly whispering their way across the South Asian sub-continent
The Imperatives of Power
Haider Nizamani Oct 4, 2000 interacts: 182A physically injured leader has won hands down against the leader of a psychologically injured nation in the world of diplomacy
The People’s Initiative
Beena Sarwar Jun 27, 2000 interacts: 19Exposure to ordinary people serves as a powerful perception changer ...
Looking for Razia
Uma Krishnaswami Jun 2, 2000 interacts: 27Razia (Zafar) Chaudhury, are you out there?
Eqbal Ahmad: Post - Pokhran Days
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 12, 2000 interacts: 82The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by nature ...
Pssst...This is Rest of South Asia speaking
Harish Nambiar May 1, 2000 interacts: 253for every Indian dollar-billionaire, there are at least a hundred million paupers
Why Clinton should visit Pakistan
Muhammad N Ahmed Mar 16, 2000 interacts: 291The Americans simply cannot sideline Pakistan...
Boundaries or Bridges?
Beena Sarwar Feb 20, 2000 interacts: 162We didn’t find the Pakistan we were looking for
Let us Not be Foolish
Ras Siddiqui Feb 19, 2000 interacts: 188Mistakes, misunderstandings and downright hate have led us too long in India-Pakistan relations...
Pakistan: A Failed State?
Bilal Ahmad Feb 4, 2000 interacts: 470If Sethi’s diagnosis has some merit, Pakistan is a potentially failed state.
Twosome Troubles of Troublesome Two
Udayakumar Jan 8, 2000 interacts: 122The adolescent behavior of both the Indian and Pakistani elites and their awry management of bilateral relations has become a matter of international notoriety
The Millenium Manifesto or ’Ikeesween Sadi Dastoor’
Zeemax Jan 8, 2000 interacts: 332Kashmir does not belong to Pakistan regardless of historical events during partition...
Resolving the Hijack Crisis
Udayakumar Dec 26, 1999 interacts: 155The timing of the IC-814 hijack crisis portends several things
An Effort to get the Cutting Edge to Deliver: Shivpuri Vikas Express
Free Dec 23, 1999 interacts: 5It doesn’t take much to get government moving in a way that makes a real difference to the average citizen
Lahore Diaries III
Rehan Ansari Sep 10, 1999 interacts: 79So why was this county divided?
That was a mistake. Sorry. It won’t happen again.
Connected to: Harsh Kapoor
Nausheen Saleem Sep 2, 1999 interacts: 4SPIDER talks to Cyber Warrior Harsh Kapoor about his stance on the recent blocking of the Dawn Internet Edition in India
Love in the Time of Kargil
Amitava Kumar Sep 1, 1999 interacts: 83I am Indian. My wife, Mona, is Pakistani. We got married in Toronto last week
Falsehoods Galore
Fauziya Khan Jul 4, 1999 interacts: 108Pakistan has thus turned into an oligarchy well versed in the art of making things disappear
A Visit to Pakistan
Vinod Vyasulu Jun 24, 1999 interacts: 22Could it be that there is a feeling that India does not accept the existence of Pakistan?
Water of Life
Veeresh Malik Jun 12, 1999 interacts: 6What has happened to all the drinking water in India?
The Dark Tower
Shandana Minhas May 10, 1999 interacts: 35The editor of Pakistani most outspoken English weekly was arrested in a most undemocratic manner for going abroad and saying what we all say in our living rooms
Face to face with the Indian Muslims
Feroz M Kamal May 3, 1999 interacts: 120How are the Muslims faring in India?
A Day in the Life of the Bus
Veeresh Malik Feb 25, 1999 interacts: 7Delhi-Lahore destination plate is no ordinary feat
Why Vajpayee’s Trip to Lahore Was a Failure
Rohan Oberoi Feb 22, 1999 interacts: 31Vajpayee’s bus trip can be described in one word: nothing
Need for a Confederation
Soumitra Bose Feb 21, 1999 interacts: 30India had never been a Nation, it is still not one
An Interview with Deepa Mehta
Rehan Ansari Jan 26, 1999 interacts: 8Of partition, hybrid filmmaking and the lack of inhibitions
The Weakest Link
Amar D Dhindsa Dec 2, 1998 interacts: 8An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand...
A Nobel for Development Studies
Chowk P Room Oct 14, 1998 interacts: 16Amartya Sen wins Nobel prize in economics
Nuclear Bomb for Sale
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Shiv Visvanathan Jul 6, 1998 interacts: 11the demand for nuclear bombs outstripped that of mangoes, movies, health services, designer labels, paan, clean water,
Onwards to the Nuclear Abyss
Feroz R Khan Jun 18, 1998 interacts: 6India, Pakistan and the March of Folly
Living with the Bomb
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jun 3, 1998 interacts: 3A 2-5 minute flight time, almost zero chances of interception, and the impossibility of recall
India tests three nuclear devices
Chowk P Room May 11, 1998 interacts: 30Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced that India had conducted three underground nuclear tests on Monday.
The Exploding Cities of the Developing World
Ayesha Tahir Feb 11, 1998 interacts: 6With ever-increasing global integration, problems that arise in one city can quickly spread throughout its region and even worldwide.
Human Chain Across Kashmir
Chowk Press Oct 26, 1997 interacts: 6We have done this because we are angry with the United Nations for not getting its resolutions (for plebiscite) implemented.
Death of the Raj: Subcontinent in the Third Millennium
Sohail Rabbani Oct 24, 1997 interacts: 17The second of two articles outlining a new definition of Pakistan and the Indian sub-continent. Ready your pens for aggressive interaction.
My Crimson Reality
Dervish Oct 24, 1997 interacts: 4In which the poet, in the best traditions of Meer, Dard, Ghalib, seems to prefer reality in an intoxicating red shade.
