Anna and his so called Taliban
There are a lot of people comparing Anna with the Taliban, and I think it is a product of our education system, where theory is taught as a separate thing […]
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Taliban
A Baloch Voice
I often get messages and tweets from Baloch people sharing information about their plight in Pakistan. I decided that it was time to end my reluctance to write on Balochistan,
Condition of Women in Afghanistan : Afghan Life
This is the new instalment in the Afghan life series by Gity Yosufi from Herat in Afghanistan. It brings a look into the difficulties faced by Afghan women in practical,
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Cave dwellers – the forgotten
Rohan O. Nazzreth from bamyan, Afghanistan describes a visit he made along with Jimmy (Dr. James. C. Dabhi), my friend, who is helping me discover these stories of a less known Afghanistan. This guest article is part of a series I am calling Afghan Life – lesser known lives and voices from Afghanistan, or the Afghanistan beyond the world’s military parking lot.
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On Kashmir and what they want
This is in reply to an email thanking me for supporting Kashmir’s struggle for freedom. Let me get this right. I am NOT supporting Kashmir’s struggle for freedom. I think
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Left of Right, Right of Left and off-center
Talk of mixed perspectives. A few posts I made recently have set me thinking about how many of us supposedly neither right nor left political inclinations actually have swallowed a
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Look ma, we have terrorists too!
What a day of pride. The religion that embraced diverse influences to include and evolve now has a new feather in its cap. We now have our own warriors. We
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Rahul Gandhi is absolutely correct on Hindutva Extremism
He is right. The Muslim groups do more damage, but the Hindu groups are more dangerous because India has a Hindu majority. If we look at world news, Indian Muslims
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Ethics of war
As I read the Wikileaks and newspapers on Kashmir and a hundred other places, one big thing stands out. Where the human rights suffer, the wars are exercises in frustration.