By: S. Akbar Zaidi ONE cannot mention either of them by name in our press or on television. It is as if by this silence they will disappear. The mainstream...

By: Mukul Kesavan The op-eds in support of the government's 'Adopt a Heritage' scheme (notably by Barkha Dutt in The Washington Post and Shekhar Gupta in ThePrint) have made several...

  By: Hamid Dabashi There is a video - tucked away somewhere deep in the attic of the internet - of me 15 years ago, convening an international conference on...

By: Sankarshan Thakur  Just a few hours before Sameer Bhat, better known as Sameer Tiger, a most wanted Hizbul Mujahideen commander, was killed in a gun battle in Drabgam in...

By: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar This past Tuesday was the International Day of Workers, an occasion for labour movements and leftists the world over to recall the day in 1886 when...

BY: NIKHIL WAGLE On this World Press Freedom Day(3rd May) three instances from the last fortnight haunt me repeatedly. A quote attributed to journalist Rana Ayyub went viral after Kathua...

BY: Abdul Khaliq Those who purvey the myth that caste is no longer a factor in determining the chances one gets in life are living in denial. Caste consciousness is...

BY: Mahir Ali BY the time the centenary of Karl Marx’s death was marked 35 years ago, devotees of his ideas were struggling to promote their continued relevance. After all,...

BY: C. Raja Mohan As hopes for peace and reconciliation surge in the Korean Peninsula after last week’s summit between the leaders of North and South, there is some wistfulness...

BY: Mosharraf Zaidi On Wednesday this week, the UNDP will publish the Pakistan National Human Development Report (NHDR). This edition of the document focuses on young people, aged fifteen to...