Coronavirus: denial, and the need of local governments on March 23, 2020The world fights a war but with an invisible enemy. Surging death toll in Italy surpasses China’s rate of mortality. It is 48,000 in Italy till the scribing of this epistle but every day it goes up with the average rate of 400 deaths a day. Vernon Silver sharing the facts on ground in Italy […]
What will Modi achieve by mayhem? on March 2, 2020Not only India but the entire region is in trouble after Modi’s second stint in the government. Over the past year, the Line of Control has been hot and many of our civilians and soldiers lost their life. In August last year, by cancelling the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 […]
Hubris and nemesis of our electronic media on January 1, 2020The decade of the 2010s was quite eventful in the political history of Pakistan. Two elected governments completed their respective terms through a peaceful transition of the club of the rule. Notwithstanding, the ruling parties had been through a very bumpy road with the burden of their past of distrust, deceits and of them playing […]
Kartarpur calls for trade on November 14, 2019On November 9, 2019, the world witnessed a historic moment. It was the day of inauguration of Kartarpur corridor to facilitate Sikhs from all over the world to visit the final resting place of Guru Nanak. To Sikh community, it was an awaiting moment for the last 70 years and, at last, they had an […]
A Requiem of performing arts on October 26, 2019“Cunningly, Shakespeare in his history plays, both ancient and modern, and indeed in his political tragedies, forever holds opposing forces and ideologies in balance” In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume […]
The poor Bacchus among us on October 15, 2019Back in the 80s’, a bunch of us would gather in the commercial avenue of our locality to spend a few hours of evening together. We were all university students who claimed ourselves bohemian and were ‘men without women.’ We cherished hope of democracy to prevail in the days to come, we, who grew in […]
Raising kids among the believers on September 19, 2019In my late teens the politics of Pakistan witnessed a whale of afflictions. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the elected prime minister of the country, faced gallows. Public flogging of political workers was a common day highlight. Shahi Qila was the favorite hovel of the sadist potentates to dump political workers there later to forget about them. […]
Hold on he remains on September 15, 2019The recent pandemonium on the idiot boxes (a lingo that ended up a byword in 1990 after the comedy show The Idiot Box on MTV) of the poor performance of the PTI government was nothing but to vent the pentup emotions of the public. The concerned thought the hibernating opposition parties might stirthe anti-government sentiments […]
My Sojourn at Pakistan on September 2, 2019Last July, I had a brief stay at Pakistan to visit my ailing mother who was admitted in the Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital. It was a sizzling heat and was almost unbearable. My mother was living in a private room of the hospital that looked like a dungeon. The whole ward, where my mother was admitted, […]
Culture and economy on July 1, 2019The wee hours of July 31, 1981, witnessed a bloody train wreck at Bahawalpur. Awam Express, bound for Karachi, had derailed in a jungle that stretched over miles and was under the supervision of the Forestry Department a few kilometres from Bahawalpur railway station. It was dark all around. I, and some friends, all in […]