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05 June, 2021 No comment
New Understandings of Labour – Post Covid-19
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23 April, 2021 No comment
Your Child Deserves Better – A Letter to Parents – III
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19 April, 2021 No comment
Your Child Deserves Better – A Letter to Parents – II
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08 April, 2021 No comment
Your Child Deserves Better – A Letter to Parents – I
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15 March, 2021 No comment
Arabic as Panacea
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09 February, 2021 No comment
Language and the Medium of Instruction
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24 January, 2021 No comment
Left Hand, Right Hand — The Roots of Extremism
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12 January, 2021 No comment
At a Loss for Words
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23 December, 2020 No comment
Equal Education
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23 December, 2020 No comment
The Elephant in the Room
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01 December, 2020 No comment
Medium of Instruction: Common Sense
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23 November, 2020 No comment
Language Puzzles
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18 November, 2020 No comment
Cross Border Bonding – The People’s Story
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16 November, 2020 No comment
A Linguistic Thought Experiment
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09 November, 2020 No comment
The Post-COVID-19 Economy: What We Want and How We Can Get It
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07 November, 2020 No comment
Microsense and Macromadness
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29 October, 2020 No comment
SNC — Off With Their Heads
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28 October, 2020 No comment
Language of Power
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27 October, 2020 No comment
Language of Instruction: Next Steps
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18 October, 2020 No comment
Knowledge and Power
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13 October, 2020 No comment
A Radical Road to Better Governance
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11 October, 2020 No comment
SNC and Language of Instruction
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04 October, 2020 No comment
Can a Language Be Irrational?
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02 October, 2020 No comment
A Better Way to Teach
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26 September, 2020 No comment
Fair Skin and Fluent English
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22 September, 2020 No comment
Is the Madrassah a School?
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20 September, 2020 No comment
No Minister, Yes Minister
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19 September, 2020 No comment
Medium of Instruction: Logic and Evidence
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16 September, 2020 No comment
Educating the Nation
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14 September, 2020 No comment
Upside-Down World
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12 September, 2020 No comment
The Pandemic is a Huge Learning Opportunity
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06 September, 2020 No comment
The Political Economy of the SNC
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02 September, 2020 No comment
What’s Wrong With the SNC?
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31 August, 2020 No comment
Strange Economics, Strange Politics
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29 August, 2020 No comment
Education: A Proposal
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24 August, 2020 No comment
Coronavirus: Need for Evidence
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22 August, 2020 No comment
Reconsider the Single National Curriculum
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20 August, 2020 No comment
The Downward Spiral of Higher Education
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19 August, 2020 No comment
Living Wage
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15 August, 2020 No comment
Use Your Heads
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12 August, 2020 No comment
Toppling Statues, Righting Wrongs
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08 August, 2020 No comment
Tipu’s Tiger
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04 August, 2020 No comment
Epidemics Within Epidemics
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01 August, 2020 No comment
Coronavirus: An Interim Verdict
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21 July, 2020 No comment
Javed Jabbar vs. Pervez Hoodbhoy: Ten Rounds
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20 July, 2020 No comment
The Passage of Time
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15 July, 2020 No comment
The Post-COVID Economy
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14 July, 2020 No comment
Transgressions: Book Review
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15 June, 2020 No comment
Count the Dead
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07 June, 2020 No comment
Infectious Stories
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04 June, 2020 No comment
The City From Here
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19 May, 2020 No comment
Mixed Messages
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14 May, 2020 No comment
Perfection of a Poem
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05 May, 2020 No comment
Parsing the Epidemic
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02 May, 2020 No comment
Mapping the Virus: A Research Proposal
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29 April, 2020 No comment
Hold the Hurrahs
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16 April, 2020 No comment
Where Are the Experts?
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11 April, 2020 No comment
A Test of Leadership
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30 March, 2020 No comment
‘My Body, My Choice’ in Perspective
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18 March, 2020 No comment
Dalrymple’s The Anarchy: A Review
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23 February, 2020 No comment
Transgressions: A Review
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16 February, 2020 No comment
Interrogating Democracy-2
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04 February, 2020 No comment
Poetry: Inspired by Faiz
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17 January, 2020 No comment
Rules and Discretion
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19 December, 2019 No comment
Art Transcends Religious Divides
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13 December, 2019 No comment
False Signals
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26 November, 2019 No comment
A Recipe for Survival (w/o Tomatoes)
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23 November, 2019 No comment
Life Without Sunshine
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08 October, 2019 No comment
Education: Put It to the Test
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17 September, 2019 4 Comments
Tech in Transit
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17 September, 2019 No comment
Taxation: An Honourable Way Forward
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15 September, 2019 No comment
Unpacking Education
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12 September, 2019 1 Comment
The Loss of Literature
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31 August, 2019 No comment
Reflections on Kashmir
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29 August, 2019 No comment
Short Cuts
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09 August, 2019 No comment
A Question of Pricing
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09 August, 2019 No comment
Hanif Kureishi, Naipaul and Pakistan
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06 August, 2019 No comment
The Quality of Food
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31 July, 2019 7 Comments
Education is Not a Solution
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25 July, 2019 No comment
A Vision For The Future
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18 June, 2019 No comment
Debating Education
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11 June, 2019 1 Comment
The Real India
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21 May, 2019 2 Comments
Language and Society
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08 April, 2019 1 Comment
Constructing the Enemy
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06 March, 2019 No comment
The Warfare State
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14 February, 2019 No comment
Finessing Brexit
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31 January, 2019 No comment
On Sustainability
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22 January, 2019 4 Comments
Inequality and Its Critique
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14 December, 2018 No comment
Miseducating Pakistan
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09 December, 2018 37 Comments
Chickens: A Debate
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21 November, 2018 27 Comments
Ali Baba and Robin Hood
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29 September, 2018 19 Comments
The Morning After
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03 September, 2018 No comment
Lessons from History
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08 August, 2018 No comment
Better Cities — An Argument and a Manifesto
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18 July, 2018 31 Comments
Governance Trap
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08 July, 2018 No comment
Metropolitan Labour Markets and Urban Productivity
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15 June, 2018 10 Comments
A South Asian Eid
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30 March, 2018 8 Comments
Living in Unhealthy Times
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20 March, 2018 No comment
Healthcare: Dubious Distinctions
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22 February, 2018 7 Comments
The Sun That Rose From the Earth
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21 January, 2018 No comment
Delimitation and Equal Representation of the Urban Vote
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13 January, 2018 2 Comments
Ants Among Elephants: A Portrait of Untouchability in India
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07 January, 2018 No comment
To Kill or Not to Kill
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05 November, 2017 1 Comment
Rotten Tomatoes
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12 October, 2017 No comment
Some of My Best Friends are Extremists
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23 September, 2017 No comment
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: A Modern Antigone
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08 September, 2017 No comment
Thank You, Donald Trump
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02 September, 2017 40 Comments
Partition, My Father, and His Wife
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07 August, 2017 No comment
Re-reads: The Merchant of Venice
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30 July, 2017 No comment
Plain Truths About the Economy
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11 July, 2017 19 Comments
Language, Learning and Logic
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06 July, 2017 1 Comment
Pakistan and its Neighbours
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30 June, 2017 1 Comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 23
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20 June, 2017 No comment
What Can the Social Sciences Do for Us?
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14 June, 2017 5 Comments
A Guide to Inequality
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10 June, 2017 No comment
CSS Questions: Ideology or Science
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08 June, 2017 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 22
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02 June, 2017 6 Comments
CSS: A Summing Up
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31 May, 2017 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 21
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19 May, 2017 No comment
CPEC: The Case for Full Disclosure
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13 May, 2017 2 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 20
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04 May, 2017 No comment
Nowhere to Go
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28 April, 2017 No comment
Is More Religion the Answer?
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27 April, 2017 1 Comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 19
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12 April, 2017 1 Comment
CSS: Probing the Examination
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08 April, 2017 3 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 18
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05 April, 2017 No comment
Silly Season in Pakistan
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01 April, 2017 26 Comments
Mind the Money
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20 March, 2017 No comment
CPEC: Questions Persist
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18 March, 2017 5 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 17
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09 March, 2017 1 Comment
Locating the Enemy
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06 March, 2017 13 Comments
Economic Bullshit
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24 February, 2017 No comment
Sehwan, Sheema and Faiz
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22 February, 2017 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 16
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15 February, 2017 No comment
Land Grants
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11 February, 2017 9 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 15
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28 January, 2017 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 14
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26 January, 2017 No comment
Trump, USAID and Funding for Pakistan
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18 January, 2017 No comment
CPEC: Lessons from History
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13 January, 2017 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 13
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10 January, 2017 1 Comment
The Death of Classical Music
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06 January, 2017 No comment
CSS: Why English?
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30 December, 2016 8 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 12
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21 December, 2016 No comment
CSS: Danger Alert
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17 December, 2016 32 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 11
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11 December, 2016 10 Comments
Education and Politics
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03 December, 2016 7 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 10
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12 November, 2016 1 Comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 9
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07 November, 2016 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 8
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31 October, 2016 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 7
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12 October, 2016 7 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 6
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26 September, 2016 6 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 5
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13 September, 2016 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 4
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28 August, 2016 No comment
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 2
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24 August, 2016 3 Comments
A History of the Left in Pakistan – 1
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08 August, 2016 No comment
Interrogating Democracy
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23 July, 2016 No comment
Still learning as we go along … are we?
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27 June, 2016 7 Comments
Democracy in Distress
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03 April, 2016 3 Comments
Civil Society: Myth or Toothless Tiger?
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28 March, 2016 7 Comments
Privatization and its Conundrums
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25 March, 2016 50 Comments
Taj Mahal and the Planning Commission
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14 March, 2016 2 Comments
Language and its Functions
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12 March, 2016 4 Comments
Which Language Should We Choose?
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06 March, 2016 12 Comments
Faiz 5: A Tribute to Kanhaiya Kumar
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05 March, 2016 14 Comments
For the Students and Faculty of JNU
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23 February, 2016 No comment
Nergis Mavalvala and Umar Khalid
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19 February, 2016 45 Comments
Reflections on JNU, India and Pakistan
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07 February, 2016 No comment
Depicting Tragedy Humorously: Foreign Aid Without Development
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14 January, 2016 No comment
The Social Background of Hindu Muslim Relationship – 1
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11 January, 2016 No comment
Fifty Years of Activism in Pakistan: A Sea Change
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10 January, 2016 No comment
Some Thoughts on God and Religion
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05 January, 2016 2 Comments
On Not Owning a House
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30 December, 2015 No comment
Faiz – 3: A Twist in the Tail
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19 December, 2015 No comment
Faiz – 2: Bangladesh – An Apriplum
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17 December, 2015 9 Comments
What’s In a Name? Nothing and a Lot
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17 December, 2015 2 Comments
The XYZ of India-Pakistan Relations
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07 December, 2015 352 Comments
Pakistanization of India?
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05 December, 2015 7 Comments
Farsi: A Whole Lot of Learning
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30 November, 2015 No comment
Faiz – 1: The City
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29 November, 2015 1 Comment
Awareness of History
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21 November, 2015 No comment
Just Do It
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15 November, 2015 No comment
World War III?
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13 November, 2015 5 Comments
Reading the Elections in Bihar
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07 November, 2015 23 Comments
Urdu in Pakistan: Do We Need It?
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31 October, 2015 9 Comments
Urdu in Pakistan – Language as the Key to Wisdom
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24 October, 2015 36 Comments
Urdu in Pakistan: A Dispassionate Analysis
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23 October, 2015 8 Comments
Democracy in India – 10: Message from Bihar
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16 October, 2015 5 Comments
Muslim Women and the 1946 Elections in India
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24 September, 2015 19 Comments
Karachi: The City That Was – 3
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16 September, 2015 7 Comments
Karachi: The City That Was – 2
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04 September, 2015 No comment
Urbanization: The Big Picture
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28 August, 2015 No comment
A DNA Test for Our Democracy
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12 July, 2015 19 Comments
History Matters
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07 July, 2015 10 Comments
Karachi: The City That Was – 1
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04 July, 2015 53 Comments
The Remove
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20 April, 2015 No comment
Two Conversations
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25 March, 2015 No comment
Electoral Choices
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20 March, 2015 No comment
Pakistan-Australia: Alack!
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19 March, 2015 9 Comments
India-Bangladesh: Beyond Cricket
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18 March, 2015 No comment
Sri Lanka-South Africa: What a Mess!
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02 March, 2015 No comment
Megacity Narratives
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22 February, 2015 No comment
Reframing Charlie Hebdo
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05 February, 2015 6 Comments
Why Labour Needs Help
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31 January, 2015 5 Comments
Beyond Grief
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27 January, 2015 No comment
The Media and Other Problems
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20 January, 2015 No comment
Meeting Oneself in Pakistan
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16 November, 2014 1 Comment
The Lovely Peculiarities of Urdu
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09 November, 2014 No comment
Four Talks and a FuneralAC
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06 November, 2014 9 Comments
Honour and Ignore
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25 October, 2014 2 Comments
Revolt and Revolution in Pakistan
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22 October, 2014 No comment
The Economics of Culture
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26 August, 2014 37 Comments
Chaos in Islamabad
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07 August, 2014 47 Comments
Questions for Ourselves
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06 August, 2014 1 Comment
Reflections on Eid
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05 August, 2014 2 Comments
BIPS, Games, and Puzzles
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04 August, 2014 No comment
Questions for Amos Oz
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01 August, 2014 No comment
Reflections on Lost Times
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15 July, 2014 8 Comments
Revisiting Somnath – A Review
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12 July, 2014 11 Comments
Requiescat
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19 June, 2014 No comment
Women and ‘Feudal’ Values
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18 June, 2014 No comment
Women and Men: Thoughts on the Nature of Society
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04 June, 2014 123 Comments
Mr. Modi: Good for Pakistan, Bad for Muslims?
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25 May, 2014 2 Comments
What the Fishermen are Telling Us
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04 May, 2014 No comment
Mr. Modi
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02 April, 2014 No comment
Making Martyrs
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31 March, 2014 No comment
Theater as a Matter of Life and Death
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30 March, 2014 16 Comments
Time, the World and the Word
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11 March, 2014 No comment
Kashmir and Sedition: Whose Side Are We On?
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15 February, 2014 No comment
Searching for a Nobel Laureate in South Asia
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25 January, 2014 25 Comments
Returning to India
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23 January, 2014 4 Comments
Sex in Perspective
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28 December, 2013 19 Comments
India: (Almost) Wild Political Speculation
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17 December, 2013 15 Comments
Pakistan-India Relations
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09 November, 2013 13 Comments
In Search of Diwali in Lahore
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20 October, 2013 26 Comments
Holy Noise
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24 September, 2013 4 Comments
The Jihad Movement – II
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18 September, 2013 14 Comments
Where Will Change Come From?
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11 September, 2013 No comment
The Berlin Committee
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08 September, 2013 9 Comments
The Jihad Movement – I
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01 September, 2013 8 Comments
The Ghadar Party – II
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31 August, 2013 1 Comment
The Ghadar Party – I
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28 August, 2013 39 Comments
What Governments Do and Why
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27 August, 2013 11 Comments
Beacons of Light
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23 August, 2013 1 Comment
Can India Learn From Its Neighbours?
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19 August, 2013 10 Comments
Social Services: Asking the Right Questions
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31 July, 2013 32 Comments
Wanted: A Real People’s Party
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17 July, 2013 23 Comments
The Curious Case of Hyderabad Sindh
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09 July, 2013 19 Comments
Education: Is More Money Good News?
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01 July, 2013 17 Comments
Anchoring Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province
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12 June, 2013 No comment
The Atomization of Society
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12 June, 2013 9 Comments
The Atomization of Society
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05 June, 2013 15 Comments
Poverty and Human Rights
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26 May, 2013 No comment
Comparing Small Towns in South Asia
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20 May, 2013 21 Comments
The Politics of Urbanization
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11 May, 2013 12 Comments
Pakistan Elections 2013: Reflections
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07 May, 2013 No comment
The Economics of Urbanization
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24 April, 2013 No comment
Policy: Prescription, Analysis and Hot Air
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01 April, 2013 No comment
Thinking About the Elections in Pakistan
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26 March, 2013 No comment
Literature in the Fortress
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20 March, 2013 9 Comments
Feminism and Violence: The Short and the Long
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10 March, 2013 17 Comments
More on Violence in South Asia and the Great Jihad
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24 February, 2013 27 Comments
What Can Literature Do?
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17 February, 2013 34 Comments
Why is South Asia So Violent?
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11 November, 2012 16 Comments
Interrogating Pankaj Mishra’s Weltanschauung
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17 October, 2012 No comment
The Black Album: Between Liberalism and Fundamentalism
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16 October, 2012 12 Comments
Two Fires
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22 September, 2012 6 Comments
Asian Responses to Colonialism
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21 September, 2012 No comment
Handwaving on Aid: Response to Nancy Birdsall
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16 August, 2012 4 Comments
Aid as Religion
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12 August, 2012 No comment
Art and Life: Unraveling a Puzzle
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09 August, 2012 No comment
The Value of the Legend of Pradeep Mathew
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21 June, 2012 69 Comments
What Kind of Revolution Do We Need in South Asia?
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27 May, 2012 10 Comments
A Character in Melville Who Wouldn’t
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18 May, 2012 46 Comments
A Dean’s Summer Reading List
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15 May, 2012 4 Comments
Pitying the Nation
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09 May, 2012 11 Comments
Brown as the Mouths of Rivers
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06 May, 2012 2 Comments
Lucymemsahib and SAP
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28 April, 2012 No comment
Not Your Father’s Kabir
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25 April, 2012 41 Comments
‘Craving Middleness’: A Critique
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22 April, 2012 18 Comments
Leela’s Book: A Review
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10 April, 2012 No comment
The Great Cities: A Pakistani Jeremiad
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08 April, 2012 15 Comments
Craving Middleness
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04 April, 2012 No comment
A Letter from the Dean
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30 March, 2012 No comment
All Wrong on Poverty and Aid
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08 March, 2012 7 Comments
Humsafar and Shakespeare
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01 March, 2012 No comment
Please Read Responsibly
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21 February, 2012 5 Comments
Learning Urdu
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21 December, 2011 No comment
$1 Trillion NGO Industry
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17 December, 2011 10 Comments
After Veena Malik: Thoughts on Morality
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11 December, 2011 8 Comments
Pak-US Relations: Conflicting Perspectives
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20 November, 2011 32 Comments
The Changing World of Urdu
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14 November, 2011 50 Comments
On the Real Poverty in South Asia
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02 November, 2011 8 Comments
Designed to Fail: Why Foreign Aid Doesn’t Deliver
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26 October, 2011 No comment
Violence Has No Borders
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17 October, 2011 11 Comments
Telling the Wrong Story in Gujarat
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25 September, 2011 4 Comments
Development: A Loss of Focus?
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11 September, 2011 17 Comments
9/11: The Burden of the Past and the Promise of the Future
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06 September, 2011 No comment
Induced Nostalgia
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26 August, 2011 7 Comments
The Economics and Politics of Corruption in India
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15 August, 2011 1 Comment
The General Leaves His Labyrinth
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09 August, 2011 2 Comments
M J Akbar’s Tinderbox: The Book in Images
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06 August, 2011 30 Comments
Informal Labour at the Root of Corporate Corruption
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29 July, 2011 6 Comments
The Rise and Decline of King’s Urdu
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28 July, 2011 11 Comments
On Some Peculiarities of King’s Urdu
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25 July, 2011 30 Comments
Is There a Puzzle in Indian Culture?
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21 July, 2011 1 Comment
More Ideas on Aid to Pakistan
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16 July, 2011 32 Comments
The Meaning of Mumbai
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14 July, 2011 55 Comments
God, Music and Food for Thought
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08 July, 2011 208 Comments
Explaining Pakistan’s Drift to the Right
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03 July, 2011 5 Comments
Pakistan’s Problems: Letter from Berlin
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01 July, 2011 46 Comments
Pakistan’s Problems: More Hypotheses
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26 June, 2011 No comment
Pakistan Unhitches Hitchens
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25 June, 2011 8 Comments
US Aid to Pakistan: Response to CGD
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20 June, 2011 73 Comments
Cracking Urdu: A Guide for Those Who Know Hindi
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18 June, 2011 94 Comments
From Urdu to Hindi, Farsi and Beyond
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09 June, 2011 8 Comments
Aid to Pakistan: Advocacy or Analysis?
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01 June, 2011 21 Comments
Classical Music in Pakistan: A Requiem?
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31 May, 2011 1 Comment
A Primer on Foreign Aid – 3: Real Issues
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23 May, 2011 21 Comments
Osama: What the ISI Knew?
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20 May, 2011 No comment
L’affaire DSK: What Can We Learn?
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14 May, 2011 1 Comment
Gandhi and bin Laden: Further Thoughts
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12 May, 2011 31 Comments
Gandhi, bin Laden and the Global Chessboard
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09 May, 2011 No comment
Some Thoughts on Patriarchy
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02 May, 2011 7 Comments
Understanding Poverty
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30 April, 2011 7 Comments
Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan – A Review
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21 April, 2011 47 Comments
India’s Pakistan Policy?
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17 April, 2011 14 Comments
Corruption and Democracy: Disputing Neera Chandhoke
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09 April, 2011 No comment
Ten Thoughts on Afridi’s Remarks about Indians
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07 April, 2011 33 Comments
On Argumentation
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03 April, 2011 No comment
On Prayer and Superstition
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01 April, 2011 9 Comments
The Lahore Effect
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29 March, 2011 2 Comments
Notes from Pakistan
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26 March, 2011 13 Comments
Cricket: Risk, Strategy, Design
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25 March, 2011 8 Comments
The Intolerant Indian: A Review
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19 March, 2011 3 Comments
More on the South Asian Liberal
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18 March, 2011 No comment
On Culture and the Clash of Cultures
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06 March, 2011 4 Comments
Who’s the Fairest of Them All?
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03 March, 2011 No comment
Blame it on the People
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01 March, 2011 21 Comments
Forget the Poor
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22 February, 2011 2 Comments
“Helping the Poor”: The Idea, the Reality and the Shadow
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20 February, 2011 No comment
Would You Wish to be a Chinese in China?
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11 February, 2011 9 Comments
From Indo-Pak to Af-Pak
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09 February, 2011 No comment
Reflections: A Visit to Karachi
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07 February, 2011 41 Comments
Pakistan after the Arab Insurrections
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07 February, 2011 6 Comments
Love’s Labor Lost?
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30 January, 2011 15 Comments
Pilgrimage as Secular Activity: A Constitutional Perversion
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25 January, 2011 7 Comments
The Music of Poetry
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21 January, 2011 14 Comments
South Asia: In Search of Roots
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17 January, 2011 27 Comments
On Secularism in South Asia
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09 January, 2011 43 Comments
The Peculiar Nature of the Pakistani Liberal
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02 January, 2011 No comment
Our Neighborhood
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25 December, 2010 11 Comments
Millennium Development Follies
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18 December, 2010 17 Comments
Education: The Myth of the Market
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05 December, 2010 53 Comments
On Being Stupid in English
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02 December, 2010 11 Comments
Analysis: The Idea of Pakistan?
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27 November, 2010 1 Comment
Analysis: Vision and Management
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21 November, 2010 No comment
On Values: The Example of Marriage
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17 November, 2010 25 Comments
On Religion as an Individual Code of Behavior
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16 November, 2010 No comment
What’s Happening in Karachi?
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15 November, 2010 7 Comments
Karachi is a Small City
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09 November, 2010 No comment
A Peek into the Mind of Pakistan’s Rulers
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05 November, 2010 17 Comments
Imaginings: Where is India Headed?
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03 November, 2010 8 Comments
India: Not Quite There Yet
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30 October, 2010 20 Comments
The Rise of Indian Women?
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28 October, 2010 No comment
LUMS and Learning: Reflections on a Discussion
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27 October, 2010 13 Comments
From Notified Criminals to Denotified Offenders
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21 October, 2010 108 Comments
What Are Pakistani College Students All About?
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19 October, 2010 26 Comments
Remaking Public School Education in Pakistan
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11 October, 2010 35 Comments
India: A View of People
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07 October, 2010 8 Comments
Pakistan: Falling Off a Cliff
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25 September, 2010 7 Comments
India, Pakistan and Survival
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24 September, 2010 7 Comments
Culture Bypass: A New Paradigm – 5
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22 September, 2010 No comment
Urbanization in India: Some Questions
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17 September, 2010 No comment
An Exercise in Analysis
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16 September, 2010 17 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 17
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15 September, 2010 No comment
Culture Bypass: A New Paradigm – 4
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14 September, 2010 16 Comments
9/11: Socrates, Machiavelli, Christ and Gandhi
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10 September, 2010 44 Comments
Culture Bypass: A New Paradigm – 3
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08 September, 2010 No comment
Pakistan: An Idiosyncratic Road to Better Governance
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08 September, 2010 1 Comment
Sleeping Beauty: Pakistan’s Civil Society
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06 September, 2010 23 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 16
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04 September, 2010 39 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 15
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03 September, 2010 15 Comments
Culture Bypass: A New Paradigm – 2
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01 September, 2010 No comment
The Indo-Persian Synthesis
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29 August, 2010 11 Comments
Culture Bypass: A New Paradigm – 1
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29 August, 2010 23 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 14
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26 August, 2010 8 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 13
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23 August, 2010 13 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 12
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21 August, 2010 9 Comments
On the Inhumanity of Humanity
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20 August, 2010 8 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 11
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19 August, 2010 43 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 10
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18 August, 2010 16 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 9
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13 August, 2010 6 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 8
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11 August, 2010 No comment
Pakistan: An Idiosyncratic Road to Better Governance
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08 August, 2010 1 Comment
PPP Prattle
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08 August, 2010 1 Comment
Captivating Catchwords
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07 August, 2010 12 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 7
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05 August, 2010 7 Comments
In Defense of ‘Against Research’
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03 August, 2010 2 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 6
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01 August, 2010 1 Comment
How to Aid the Health Sector in Pakistan
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31 July, 2010 2 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 5
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30 July, 2010 9 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 4
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29 July, 2010 9 Comments
Against Research
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26 July, 2010 12 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 3
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24 July, 2010 17 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 2
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18 July, 2010 33 Comments
A Modern Introduction to Music – 1
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16 July, 2010 6 Comments
On Loyalty and Patriotism
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15 July, 2010 No comment
Review: A Gash in the World
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11 July, 2010 20 Comments
Culture, Nationality and Religion – 3
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09 July, 2010 20 Comments
Culture, Nationality and Religion – 2
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05 July, 2010 12 Comments
Culture, Nationality and Religion – 1
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27 June, 2010 No comment
Imaginings: Retrospective on Pakistan
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20 June, 2010 No comment
Achievement and Risk-taking
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14 June, 2010 14 Comments
Reflections: Literature and Nationalism
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13 June, 2010 6 Comments
Governance in South Asia: States and Robber Gangs
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08 June, 2010 2 Comments
Neighbours: Private Dosti, Political Demarcations
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05 June, 2010 4 Comments
Are Some State and Non-State Actions Evil?
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30 May, 2010 63 Comments
Development and Violence: Some Clues?
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29 May, 2010 No comment
Pakistan: A New Phase?
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26 May, 2010 2 Comments
Arundhati Roy and Martin Luther King
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24 May, 2010 No comment
On Making Choices: A Thought Experiment
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22 May, 2010 No comment
In Support of Arundhati Roy
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01 May, 2010 No comment
Tony Judt on the State, Democracy and Religion
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19 April, 2010 7 Comments
Democracy: Corn Flakes, Cabbages and Kings
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14 April, 2010 No comment
Arundhati Roy
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13 April, 2010 12 Comments
Imaginings: South Asia in 2020
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03 April, 2010 38 Comments
War or Peace on the Indus?
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21 March, 2010 9 Comments
What Does the Argumentative Indian Argue About?
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19 March, 2010 13 Comments
A Man of the Right
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11 March, 2010 29 Comments
Good Muslims: A Material Theory of Culture?
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07 March, 2010 8 Comments
The Dark Side of Economic Growth
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11 February, 2010 22 Comments
Come Back, Ibn-e Eusuf
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07 February, 2010 No comment
On Not Learning
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26 January, 2010 4 Comments
Lahore – What is to be Done?
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22 January, 2010 No comment
Lahore – The Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
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20 January, 2010 4 Comments
Lahore – A Canal Runs Through It
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06 January, 2010 3 Comments
Macaulay’s Stepchildren
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19 December, 2009 No comment
Education Reform in India
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15 December, 2009 25 Comments
Telangana Thoughts
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15 December, 2009 7 Comments
Telangana Thoughts
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09 December, 2009 33 Comments
Reflections of a New Mother
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28 November, 2009 10 Comments
Consumption and the Limit to Resources
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18 November, 2009 23 Comments
The World is Too Big to Fail But…
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13 November, 2009 11 Comments
French Salons and South Asia
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11 November, 2009 5 Comments
Reflections: South Asian Pecking Order
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07 November, 2009 14 Comments
Education: Humanities and Science
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06 November, 2009 4 Comments
Pakistan: What Do You Want?
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31 October, 2009 4 Comments
Indian Women: A Paradox?
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28 October, 2009 23 Comments
Education: A Critique of Mark Slouka
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25 October, 2009 10 Comments
South Asia – 2: Three Deprivations
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23 October, 2009 19 Comments
The Sexual Divide
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18 October, 2009 6 Comments
Justice, Power, and Truth
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17 October, 2009 26 Comments
Sen’s Idea of Justice: A Puzzle?
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15 October, 2009 61 Comments
Ten Unacceptable Things
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12 October, 2009 4 Comments
On Sentiments – Individual and Collective
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10 October, 2009 26 Comments
Pakistan’s Favorite Indians
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03 October, 2009 3 Comments
History: Lived and Imagined
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29 September, 2009 35 Comments
On Thinking About the Past
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24 September, 2009 42 Comments
To Whom Does India Belong?
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18 September, 2009 39 Comments
On Emperor Akbar
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11 September, 2009 57 Comments
September Eleven
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08 September, 2009 No comment
Another Country, Another Election
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05 September, 2009 2 Comments
Aditya Behl (1966-2009)
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31 August, 2009 58 Comments
The Road to Partition
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28 August, 2009 4 Comments
Yehudi Menuhin: On Nationalism
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27 August, 2009 6 Comments
Music: Architecture, Painting, and Wet Clay
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25 August, 2009 No comment
Jaswant Singh: What’s All the Fuss?
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24 August, 2009 4 Comments
Music: An Interview with Arpita Chatterjee
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21 August, 2009 11 Comments
An Idiot’s Guide to Music – 3
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13 August, 2009 381 Comments
Burqa: Principle, Prejudice and Preference
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07 August, 2009 3 Comments
An Idiot’s Guide to Music – 2
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02 August, 2009 39 Comments
An Idiot’s Guide to Music – 1
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29 July, 2009 No comment
The South Asian Idea: A Review
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25 July, 2009 No comment
China – 3: Lessons from Tibet
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21 July, 2009 69 Comments
Ghalib – 30: Similarities and Differences
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19 July, 2009 6 Comments
Islam: Moving On
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16 July, 2009 22 Comments
Reflections: Shaped by the Times
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14 July, 2009 5 Comments
Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Asia
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10 July, 2009 17 Comments
Assessing Kashmir Policies
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09 July, 2009 3 Comments
On God’s Will
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04 July, 2009 118 Comments
Perspectives on Kashmir
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03 July, 2009 2 Comments
Beyond Anti-Americanism
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29 June, 2009 16 Comments
More and Less of Imran Khan
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28 June, 2009 No comment
Ghalib -29: On Being Modern
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25 June, 2009 No comment
China – 2: Making Sense of China
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22 June, 2009 No comment
Iran and the Dilemma of Democracy
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21 June, 2009 No comment
On Cooperation and Team Work – 5
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17 June, 2009 2 Comments
Ghalib – 28: Who’s Afraid of Multiple Meanings?
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15 June, 2009 6 Comments
Dissecting Hoodbhoy’s Logic
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14 June, 2009 23 Comments
On Language and Communication
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13 June, 2009 7 Comments
On Cooperation and Individualism – 4
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13 June, 2009 3 Comments
On Cooperation and Competition – 3
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12 June, 2009 4 Comments
On Cooperation and Competition – 2
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11 June, 2009 No comment
Building Democracy in Iraq
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07 June, 2009 5 Comments
On Cooperation and Competition – 1
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06 June, 2009 2 Comments
Obama and his Audience
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05 June, 2009 1 Comment
Obama in Cairo: Ten Weak Points
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02 June, 2009 5 Comments
Laws and the Rule of Law
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31 May, 2009 No comment
On Treason in the Subcontinent
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29 May, 2009 8 Comments
More on the Law of Inheritance
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28 May, 2009 1 Comment
Slumland South Asia?
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24 May, 2009 No comment
Democracy in India – 9: Who Speaks for India?
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23 May, 2009 33 Comments
On the Poverty of Indian Muslims
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22 May, 2009 4 Comments
Reflections: Go Mohammedans?
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17 May, 2009 No comment
China – 1: Why a Series on China?
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16 May, 2009 2 Comments
Them Versus Us
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13 May, 2009 8 Comments
Us Versus Them
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10 May, 2009 5 Comments
The Peculiarities of Imran Khan
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05 May, 2009 47 Comments
The Confusions of Imran Khan
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04 May, 2009 12 Comments
On the Functions of Religion
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02 May, 2009 11 Comments
Hinduism – 7: The Wall of Amnesia
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02 May, 2009 7 Comments
What Makes Men Stupid?
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28 April, 2009 5 Comments
Reflections: Delhi – The City Remembered
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25 April, 2009 No comment
Reflections
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24 April, 2009 1 Comment
Education and the Rights of Children
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17 April, 2009 2 Comments
Similar and Different: Bengal Revisited
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07 April, 2009 2 Comments
Similar and Different: Good and Evil
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05 April, 2009 19 Comments
Similar and Different: Common and Problematic
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05 April, 2009 2 Comments
Ghalib – 27: Rhetoric or Reality?
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31 March, 2009 14 Comments
Education in Pakistan: Ten Big Questions
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29 March, 2009 2 Comments
Similar and Different: Why Marriages Fail?
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28 March, 2009 8 Comments
Similar and Different: What Else?
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27 March, 2009 9 Comments
Similar or Different and Does it Matter?
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24 March, 2009 21 Comments
How Similar? How Different?
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22 March, 2009 19 Comments
Jinnah, Nehru, and the Ironies of History
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20 March, 2009 2 Comments
Ghalib – 26: A Tale Told by an Idiot?
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19 March, 2009 14 Comments
What’s With Movie Stars in South India?
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18 March, 2009 15 Comments
Gujarat: What Miracle?
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18 March, 2009 53 Comments
Governance in Pakistan – 7: Which Islam?
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17 March, 2009 No comment
After the Long March – What Now Comrades?
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15 March, 2009 No comment
Governance in Pakistan – 4: What is Good Analysis?
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14 March, 2009 23 Comments
Governance in Pakistan – 3: More Bad Analysis
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13 March, 2009 3 Comments
Ghalib – 25: On Resignation
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08 March, 2009 No comment
Hearts and Minds
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08 March, 2009 No comment
Governance in Pakistan – 2
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07 March, 2009 1 Comment
Governance in Pakistan – 1
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28 February, 2009 No comment
An Alternate Explanation for Existence
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26 February, 2009 3 Comments
Ghalib – 24: On Deceivers and the Deceived
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23 February, 2009 41 Comments
Darwin Meets Fresh Teen in Pakistan
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13 February, 2009 26 Comments
Ghalib – 23: Mirrors and Mirrors
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10 February, 2009 8 Comments
Kim Aashcharyam? (What is the most amazing thing?)
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05 February, 2009 No comment
Ghalib – 22: Against Indifference
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31 January, 2009 8 Comments
Ghalib – 21: Heaven Unto Hell
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29 January, 2009 20 Comments
On the Emergence of Pakistan
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27 January, 2009 122 Comments
Why Indians are Stressed and Unhealthy
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25 January, 2009 10 Comments
On God: Existence and Nature
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24 January, 2009 9 Comments
Ghalib – 20: Leaders and Followers
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20 January, 2009 4 Comments
Can a Computer be Aware Like a Human?
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18 January, 2009 9 Comments
Ahmedabad: Life in the City
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16 January, 2009 5 Comments
Ahmedabad: The Power of Labeling
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14 January, 2009 No comment
Singapore: Evidence from Bollywood
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12 January, 2009 No comment
Singapore: The Voice of Citizens
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10 January, 2009 7 Comments
Ghalib – 19: New Year Thoughts
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08 January, 2009 17 Comments
Is Singapore a Successful City?
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03 January, 2009 No comment
Pakistan: What is to be done in FATA?
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27 December, 2008 9 Comments
Hinduism – 6: Interactions in the Mirror of Sex
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26 December, 2008 No comment
South Asia – 1: A Region in Trouble?
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25 December, 2008 6 Comments
Ghalib – 18: Beyond Symbols
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24 December, 2008 2 Comments
Corruption: Counterintuitive Conclusions
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19 December, 2008 2 Comments
Hinduism – 5: Impacts of Interactions with Muslims
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14 December, 2008 No comment
Ghalib – 17: On Mumbai?
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10 December, 2008 20 Comments
The Peculiar Nature of India-Pakistan Relations
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07 December, 2008 8 Comments
Terrorism – 5: What’s Your Religion?
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06 December, 2008 10 Comments
Terrorism – 4: Reaching Out
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05 December, 2008 11 Comments
Terrorism – 3: Turning In
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04 December, 2008 No comment
Hinduism – 4: Early Interaction with Muslims
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29 November, 2008 10 Comments
Terrorism – 2: Beyond Mumbai
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28 November, 2008 8 Comments
Terrorism – 1: How Do We Respond to Mumbai?
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24 November, 2008 10 Comments
Ghalib – 16: On Monarchy and Democracy
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16 November, 2008 5 Comments
Is Faith Necessary for Progress?
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11 November, 2008 34 Comments
Has Islam a Place in a Modern World?
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09 November, 2008 9 Comments
Ghalib – 15: The Scream of Silence
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31 October, 2008 No comment
Ghalib – 14: Who Goes to Heaven?
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29 October, 2008 10 Comments
Pakistan: A Downward Spiral
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25 October, 2008 No comment
Ghalib – 13: On the Reality of Paradise
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24 October, 2008 14 Comments
Hinduism – 3: Interaction with Muslims
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19 October, 2008 10 Comments
In Defense of Lord Macaulay
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16 October, 2008 No comment
Hinduism – 2: Getting to Terms with Religion
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12 October, 2008 79 Comments
Hinduism – 1: What is ‘Hinduism’?
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12 October, 2008 2 Comments
Ghalib – 12: On the Object of Worship
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11 October, 2008 No comment
More Numbers on Poverty and Education
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10 October, 2008 No comment
Why Numbers are Important?
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07 October, 2008 No comment
Why are Political Parties Not Issue Oriented?
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07 October, 2008 1 Comment
Textiles: Can Pakistan Compete?
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06 October, 2008 23 Comments
Why is Pakistan Half Illiterate?
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05 October, 2008 15 Comments
What’s Happening in Small Towns?
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05 October, 2008 4 Comments
What is the Future of the City in South Asia?
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03 October, 2008 No comment
Ghalib Says – 11
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30 September, 2008 34 Comments
Who Wants Peace in the Subcontinent?
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27 September, 2008 370 Comments
What If India Were Not Partitioned?
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26 September, 2008 11 Comments
Ghalib Says – 10
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26 September, 2008 2 Comments
Are NGOs Relevant?
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23 September, 2008 6 Comments
Is Corruption Good or Bad?
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21 September, 2008 3 Comments
Individual or State: Who is Behind Violence?
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19 September, 2008 3 Comments
Are We Similar or Are We Different?
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18 September, 2008 No comment
Ghalib – 9
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17 September, 2008 27 Comments
Do Devotion and Brutality Go Together?
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14 September, 2008 No comment
Ghalib – 8
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12 September, 2008 No comment
How Far Behind is South Asia?
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09 September, 2008 17 Comments
What’s Happening in Nepal?
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07 September, 2008 23 Comments
Should Pakistan Receive More Foreign Aid?
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06 September, 2008 8 Comments
Is Poverty the Cause of Illiteracy?
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03 September, 2008 7 Comments
Ghalib Says – 7
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28 August, 2008 No comment
Ghalib Says – 6
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27 August, 2008 No comment
Governance and Morality
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26 August, 2008 8 Comments
Faith and Development
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22 August, 2008 No comment
Corruption and Development
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21 August, 2008 3 Comments
Ghalib Says – 5
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21 August, 2008 37 Comments
Is Overpopulation the Cause of Poverty?
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18 August, 2008 8 Comments
Is Illiteracy the Cause of Poverty?
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11 August, 2008 2 Comments
On Diversity
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07 August, 2008 2 Comments
Ghalib Says – 4
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04 August, 2008 No comment
The Search for Truth
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30 July, 2008 1 Comment
Ghalib Says – 3
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30 July, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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30 July, 2008 28 Comments
A Gash in the World
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30 July, 2008 1 Comment
A Gash in the World
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30 July, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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30 July, 2008 1 Comment
A Gash in the World
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29 July, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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29 July, 2008 8 Comments
A Gash in the World
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28 July, 2008 6 Comments
A Gash in the World
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28 July, 2008 6 Comments
A Gash in the World
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26 July, 2008 7 Comments
Democracy in India – 7
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26 July, 2008 No comment
Democracy in India – 7
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25 July, 2008 15 Comments
Ghalib Says – 2
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25 July, 2008 8 Comments
A Gash in the World
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24 July, 2008 4 Comments
Pakistan’s Leaders
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22 July, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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20 July, 2008 1 Comment
Democracy in India – 6
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20 July, 2008 6 Comments
A Gash in the World
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19 July, 2008 12 Comments
Ghalib Says – 1
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18 July, 2008 1 Comment
The Politics of God
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15 July, 2008 11 Comments
Milton and Ghalib
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14 July, 2008 17 Comments
Hindu-Muslim or Muslim-Hindu?
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08 July, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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05 July, 2008 2 Comments
More on Fundamentalism – 1
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01 July, 2008 No comment
On Fundamentalism
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25 June, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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20 June, 2008 No comment
Democracy – A Historical Perspective
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20 June, 2008 No comment
Democracy – A Historical Perspective
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14 June, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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14 June, 2008 No comment
A Gash in the World
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11 June, 2008 6 Comments
Building Democracy in Iraq
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10 June, 2008 6 Comments
Democracy in India – 5
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06 June, 2008 6 Comments
Democracy in India – 4
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06 June, 2008 No comment
Democracy in India – 4
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04 June, 2008 2 Comments
The Art of Democracy
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31 May, 2008 No comment
Democracy in India – 2
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21 April, 2008 1 Comment
Straws in the Wind
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11 April, 2008 No comment
Reflections on a Very Large Cabinet
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07 April, 2008 20 Comments
Elections: Pakistan Style
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04 April, 2008 1 Comment
More on the Modern South Asian – 2
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31 March, 2008 1 Comment
It’s the Leadership, Stupid
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26 March, 2008 1 Comment
The Middle Class Myth in India
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23 March, 2008 No comment
More on the Modern South Asian – 1
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20 March, 2008 No comment
Cricket and Politics
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15 March, 2008 6 Comments
Is There Such a Thing as a Modern South Asian?
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14 March, 2008 No comment
Time for Apologies
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09 March, 2008 No comment
Is There an Irrational Voter?
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01 March, 2008 4 Comments
The Politics of Identity in Pakistan
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23 February, 2008 No comment
The Politics of Identity
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22 February, 2008 1 Comment
Democracy in Japan – Electoral Rules Matter
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17 February, 2008 9 Comments
Governance in Colonial Hong Kong – Lessons from Experience
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13 February, 2008 No comment
Democracy in Malaysia and the Importance of the Second-Best
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11 February, 2008 1 Comment
Democracy in Sri Lanka
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09 February, 2008 No comment
The Dilemma of Democracy in Pakistan
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08 February, 2008 4 Comments
Democracy in India – 1
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04 February, 2008 No comment
Equality, Individual Rights, Modernity and Democracy
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02 February, 2008 2 Comments
Individualism, Social Contract, Governance and Modernity
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01 February, 2008 No comment
Hierarchy, Dependence, Equality and Democracy
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27 January, 2008 No comment
Monarchy, Religion, Hierarchy and Modernity
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26 January, 2008 3 Comments
“Modern” and “Stupid”
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