How the war affected the subcontinent on October 1, 2015The Raj at War Author: Yasmin Khan Publisher: Bodley Head; Pgs: 432 Reading textbooks of Indian history in school and college, one sees the 1940s as the decade of the struggle for independence, from the Lahore Resolution of 1940 through the elections and the constant fights between Indian politicians and the Raj administration headed by […]
Lifestyles of the bejewelled and famous on September 7, 2014“You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you,” said Audrey Hepburn in the iconic movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The women described in Rhodes and Papi’s book, 20th Century Jewelry and the Icons of Style, however, believed in buying their own jewels for […]
A closer look at the white beyond the green on December 14, 2013You may find on the internet a picture of the Pakistani flag with splotches of blood on the white stripe. This stripe was included in the national flag to represent our minorities and, with the various atrocities taking place in recent years, the bloody imagery becomes quite appropriate. Pakistan’s partition from India in 1947 was […]