Allah - Different Truths

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

PPP, PTI Adopt Tactical Truce to Remember Black Day: Pak Right Wing Parties Try to Exploit Rift

On this day during the regime of Pervez Musharraf, nearly 50 people were killed, with hundreds injured due to a sanguinary riot between the political activists of Musharraf-backed Muttahida...

February 14, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Are Mani Shankar and Mehbooba Mufti, the two Valentines of Pakistan, Dancing with the Devil?

Mani Shankar Aiyar and Mehbooba Mufti are the two Valentines of Pakistan. Both have been talking way out of the boundaries of India. In Aiyar’s case, literally. Aiyar and...

February 9, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
History & Culture, Travel & Food

Lucknow: Of Nawabs, Kebabs, and Tehzeeb

Ruchira takes us on a tour of Lucknow, where currents and crosscurrents of divergent cultures intermingled and blended, to finally emerge as a new composite whole. Read more in...

October 15, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Business, Calamity, Crime

Aarushi Denied Justice, Deadly Curse of Elphinstone, From Wagon R to Biopic, Bitcoin Billionaire and We Want Sauce

Shail reviews the fortnight that was in verse. Aarushi’s parents were acquitted of murder charges by the Allahabad High Court. In Mumbai, many died due to the collapse of...

August 6, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Sahir Ludhianvi: A Soulful Love Poet, Failed in Love and Died, a Bachelor, Forlorn!

Sahir Ludhianvi’s divorced mother remained a great influence on him. Some even say he suffered an Oedipus complex. An interesting and intriguing, passionate and sensitive aspect of his has...

March 27, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Urdu: Today and Tomorrow

Sehar talks about Urdu, the language of emotions. She talks of Ibn Safvi, an Urdu writer from Kareli, a locality in Allahabad, who was acclaimed by Agatha Christie. Here’s...

March 25, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Tamas: Bhisham Sahni Explores the Reasons of the Indian Partition in 1947

In the acclaimed novel, Tamas, Bhisham Sahni shows how these two identities are made hostile to each other by the political ambition of some power-loving people, the colonial rulers’...

March 18, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

The Crises of Hindu Identity and Patriarchal Wounds in Ice-Candy Man

Continuing with the theme of partition, Basudeb profiles the crises of Hindu identity and patriarchal wounds in Ice-Candy Man. Through the eyes of an eight-year Parsee girl living with...

February 25, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Crisis of Identity in Azadi by Chaman Nahal

This crisis of identity of both Hindus and Muslims has been mirrored in some major texts on partition fictions in English and in English translation. The crisis of Muslim...

February 4, 2017
Dr. Krishna Hota
Religion

You can see God -IV

It is obvious that you may not be able to see God, but He is always watching you! He is in His divine abode; still, He is watching you sitting...

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