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Pakistan’s youth almost upset crooked plans of its grizzled generals. Lesson for old & powerful everywhere Pakistan’s election is similar to matches played by the country’s cricket team. You never know what to expect. An election most of the world likened to a fixed match has veered off script. Thank Pakistani youth for it.Charged up
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Srijana Mitra Das Srijana Mitra Das has a PhD from Cambridge University where she studied militancy, religion and caste. She read Politics for her MPhil at Cambridge and Economics as an LSE undergrad. Joining the Indian media, she’s worked on major editorial pages, reported and run interview, film and literary sections. In 2018, Srijana was
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People have voted against the military’s political favourites but General Munir still gets to cook up the next coalition government Pakistanis braved stiff odds on Feb 8 to cast their vote. A strong electoral tsunami, led by young voters, coalesced a distinct anti-army mood with deep anger at economic hardships and a sympathy wave for
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Massive weekend protests in Ladakh demanding statehood warrant immediate attention from New Delhi. Having been hived off from erstwhile J&K state in 2019, following nullification of Article 370, Ladakhis now feel robbed of their democratic rights. While J&K became a Union Territory with a legislative assembly, there was also a political promise of restoring statehood
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Seventies were when music became portable, with cassette players outplaying vinyl. Fast forward many decades later, and music today is all about streaming. In the interim alongside technology, tastes have been transformed. This is why it is extraordinary for a band to have launched then and still be grabbing attention and appreciation. So what does
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There was a time when not a lot of people wrote books. There were very few publishers, and then they had very high standards, mostly being on a lookout for the next Booker Prize winner. But then things started changing with revolutions in printing at scale, and new publishers flooding the market, and standards of
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Nitish Kumar’s makeover from Sushasan Babu to Palturam has political pundits fretting. And meme makers making merry. But what do voters in Bihar think of its longest-serving CM’s latest political somersault? Speaking to a cross-section of voters in rural and urban locations showed a house divided. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email
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Israel-Hamas war is into its fifth month, close to an estimated 30,000 killed in Gaza. Israel attacks in West Bank have also surged. Diana Buttu, West Bank-based lawyer and former spokesperson for Palestine Liberation Organisation, speaks to Rudroneel Ghosh on recent ICJ ruling even as attacks continue, including in West Bank. Read full interview on
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By Dena Merriam On inauguration of new Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, I share my own experience at a Raghunath temple in Jammu. It was just a simple temple, no one was there, it is not visited and yet that was where the portal opened and I had my experience with Ram. So, I know what
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Shame is a painful emotion to endure. We try to deny it, pass it on as quickly as we can like a hot potato. Shame: The Politics And Power Of An Emotion by David Keen, attempts to trace how it has been politicised, to what purposes and results. What role does shame play in large-scale
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