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Scoop or Sting

If there is a dearth of ideas let me suggest some for India TV

Lahore Diary

Basant in Lahore, Cooco's Den, Gurudwara Dera Sahib, and Visa advise after a recent visit to Lahore

The Iraqi Elections: an Important Watershed

It was 50 years since the last semblance of any worthwhile elections. Even the Arabic media recognized the historicity of the event.

Jared Diamond’s latest book Collapse

Explores the collapse of ancient civilizations and at the same time gives us insights into Rwanda’s 1990s genocide, China’s burgeoning environmental problems, Australia’s mining industry, and winds it all up with analyses of why societie

The Salafi Threat

It’s for progressives in the Arab world to put their views forward more aggressively to counter the Salafi menace.

Must Reads on the Middle East

The subject is imbued with many tones of history and it would be good to start off with authors who are able to condense history and weave it with contemporary events.

Demining Starts Healing War-torn Northern Sri Lanka

The ongoing efforts in Sri Lanka have lessons for both India and Pakistan. The borders of the two countries have seen huge swathes of territory being rendered useless and dangerous by landmines -- India alongwith the US, China, Russia and Pakistan is not

Palestinian Reforms

Ironically, with elections looming ahead, the reform demands, raised by the majority of the elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council when Arafat was still alive, seem better placed to materialize now in his absence.

Confessions of Jihadis

And while it is often feared that to explain terrorism is to justify it but it is only in this introspection that we can understand that the question is not what Islam has done to muslims but what the muslims are doing to Islam

Hindi films in Iraq and Palestine

In a war torn country where the Mahdi army stomps and fights and where Jordanian born militant Abu Musa Zarqarwi stalks the land with his band of militants you can see Shah Rukh Khan hoardings endorsing Kenstar products at busy Baghdad intersections.

The Beslan Silver Lining

If our battle against terrorism has to be more sophisticated we have to realise sooner than later that the greatest tool at our disposal is the piety, decency, and courage of the world’s vast majority of muslims.

Aniruddha Bahal

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