Dr Aamir Khan

Once again, Imran Khan has decided to pull the plug on his protest movement, in which he had threatened to lock down the very capital of Pakistan. Once again, the question “what was he thinking?” is racing through the minds of millions of Pakistanis, with equal amounts of adoration and bewilderment. The question is important. […]

We humans reach a point in life when we are forced to reflect on our past trajectories: our failed marriages, our harmless peccadilloes, our egregious mistakes, the chances that came knocking on our door that we failed to turn into financial, moral or intellectual achievements. This reflex is in-built in our consciousness, and it provides […]

In Nitya Mehra’s creative debut Bollywood movie Baar Baar Dekho, we are treated to a primal human desire: the question of ‘what if’. What if we knew how our choices would pan out and could correct our missteps? Eye-candy Sidharth Malhotra plays the role of a budding mathematician, Jai Varma, who is caught up in […]

Some 25 years ago when I was working as a junior Pakistani diplomat, I visited my colleague at the embassy compound. My friend, a third secretary like me, offered me the most delectable dates I had ever tasted. I was crestfallen, however, to find out that the ambassador had sent these dates to 16 households […]

Have you come across the frustrating situation when your close friend, successful in the past, starts making wrong decisions and begins to unravel, even to your own detriment? Yet you remain speechless, worried that if you were to advise him, he may turn against you? My friend, the United States of America, is behaving exactly […]