A Strategy For Real Agricultural Prosperity

2.4% farmers control 23% of the land. They are the barriers to India's progress in agriculture. They can be moved, and they must be moved if India is to eliminate rural poverty.

We Can Make a Difference

They are the children who have been abandoned, have run away from abusive homes, were orphaned or simply got lost.

Last But Not Least

Poverty may be more than a silent killer. This sentence cannot be ignored as emotional rhetoric since, sadly, it has become a hair-raising reality.

Color-Blind Love

Worldwide, interracial marriages are on the rise. However, 20 years ago, because of my religion, a German priest would not officiate our marriage nor would a Greek Orthodox priest.

Militant Liberalism

Do we have liberals amongst us that are willing to carry a Kalashnikov in the name of values of Egalitarianism and Social Justice?

The Princess and the Alley Cats

Shilpa Shetty - A clash of cultures or simple racism?

The Canadian Dream: Never Fulfilled

As the digital divide keeps people away from information, the immigrant divide keeps foreign qualified professionals from their profession of choice.

Children of Guest Workers

There exists a strong resentment amongst the immigrant youth against the German system; I see a highly polarised society

Guilty of Gohana

Anybody can see that the ’spontaneous expression’ of anger of the upper castes against the dalits was led by an organised and experienced team of houseblasters.

The Dance of the Damned

'We Dalits are like animals. The moment we are born we are on our own. There is no support system. We are constantly made aware that we are apart.'

Is Helen Fielding a Racist?

So what’s wrong with writing a novel where Al-Qaeda terrorists blow up a floating apartment block, kill Westerners, and yet are deeply attracted to the charms of the West, including women and alcohol? Isn’t that what Arabs do?

Restructuring Identity

For the past twenty-three years, the meaning of my identity has eluded me. As a Pakistani-born girl brought up in Germany by an American Army community, I constantly questioned myself: am I more Pakistani or American? Can I preserve an Eastern culture in

The Racist Within

You will hear oft-repeated statements such as “ The system is too corrupt and I cannot be a part of it.” In essence every time we utter such ignorant generalisations we aid that system to become more degraded, more decadent, atleast in our vie

Pervez Hoodbhoy-Paul Kurtz correspondence

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Edward Said was slandered by Ibn Warraq, a man with pretensions to being a secular humanist and the author of several books.

The changing face of America

At lunch a steward asked me if the “Halal Meal” was mine? Without waiting for my answer he dumped the food on my table, took two giant leaps and disappeared to the next section of the airplane.

A Broken Promise

When Pakistan was created, its founder, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, famously declared, “You are free, free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion

The Sad Reality of Arranged Marriages in South Asia

Arranged Marriages are Racist and prevent Social Mobility

A Day with an Orthodox Rabbi

Hebrew for God willing also sounds like insha’allah.

• Communalism
• Arranged Marriage
• Gender Divide
• Racism
• Illiteracy
• Poverty
• Honor Killings
• Sexual Exploitation
• Child Labor
• Social Activism
• AIDS-HIV Awareness
• Drug Addiction

• Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy
• The Indian Story
• Indo-Pak Relations
• Personal Narratives
• Religion Today
• War on Terror
• Role of Media
• Call for Social Change
• Hold Them Accountable
• Environment and Us
• Way of Life

• Swat Calls For Civil Society to Act
• In Search of Political Will: Fight Against Militants in Swat
• In memory of the Swat valley
• The Nightmare Must End
• In Honor of the Heroes of Swat