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Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo: I first interviewed Imran Khan back in 2010, in print, for the New Statesman. In the 14 years since, I have spoken to him on multiple
Habib Khan from Quetta: During the independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s, many of the educated and well-settled people of Balochistan left their jobs to join the political movement,
Farrukh K. Pitafi at The Express Tribune: Absolutely Anything is a 2015 science fiction fantasy comedy film in which all living members of the Monty Python crew and Robin Williams
Continue readingThis is the Problem With Good Intentions and Radical Ideas
“They may not be evidence of UFOs, ancient spirits or secret weapons, but there is something magical in their allure–they do act as magnets for mystical tourism”, says The Smithsonian.
Kat Rosenfield at The Free Press: Five years ago, all my girlfriends suddenly decided to abandon their husbands en masse. That is how it seemed at the time, at least.
Continue readingKat Rosenfield: Glamorizing a Marital Split is Narcissism Disguised as Feminism
I chanced across my old selftoday. I was sitting in the secondfloor office where I used to work —at the typewriter, young, thin guy,in his late 20’s, white shirt, narrowdark
by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas to officially divvy up the planet’s freshly discovered regions beyond Europe. Over 370
Continue readingBrazil: A Melting-pot Genetic Present and an Uncharted Deep Past
Raghuram G. Rajan at Project Syndicate: There is a buzz in India today – a sense of limitless possibilities. India has just overtaken its former colonial master (the United Kingdom) to become
Continue readingThe Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future
Maggie Hennefeld at Psyche: As I argue in my new book, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (2024), fun-loving women were being terrorised into believing that their unrestrained
Continue readingWhy was a Laughing Woman Seen as Lethal, Not Least to Herself?
By Taylor Downing at Air Mail: General Hans Cramer was a German officer of the formal, Prussian school. Strict, proud and rigid, he did not take kindly to surrendering. Forced
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s end. S’bu Zikode and Richard Pithouse in the Boston Review: Richard Pithouse: Mandela was released from prison
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde; The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. —Laozi; Many a doctrine is like a window pane.