Rakesh Mani

After last month’s attack on the Mehran base, top analysts and ordinary citizens alike are emphatic that the country will never be the same. It boggles the mind how armed terrorists were able to casually scale a back wall, destroy two maritime surveillance aircraft and wage a protracted gun battle in Karachi. The Pakistani Taliban […]

M F Husain’s passing in a London hospital marks the conclusion of one of the most pitiful chapters in independent India’s secular history. It is an indictment of India’s government and its poisoned politics that Husain, arguably India’s most celebrated and prolific artist, died in exile. For all our pretensions to freedom and secularism, we […]

With all the depressing news coming out of Pakistan in the last few months, there is one major development that has me hopeful and excited. Last month saw the launch of the Teach For Pakistan movement, which aims to expand the urban poor’s access to quality education by recruiting highly qualified young Pakistanis to teach […]