IF 2024 will be known as the year of seismic general elections, it will also be remembered as the one of unforgettable weddings. In India, Mumbai is still aglitter in the after-glow of the wedding of Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The festivities spread over weeks of uncapped extravagance. The total […]
President Joe Biden insists that he is still running. He has not said in which direction. He needs to decide quickly before someone makes up his mind for him. Some expect the Democrat party to push him over the edge. Others that his medical team may advise him against subjecting himself to the rigour of
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Khushwant Singh would have been delighted. The latest LitFest revived his memory over two days at SOAS in London, the city he loved as much as his birthplace Hadali (in Pakistan). The added piquancy for him was that the sessions began and ended with two Pakistanis. The Keynote Speaker on 1st June had taken Khushwant’s ashes
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[DAWN, 23 May 2024] They are all dead: the feisty Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and her fourteen interviewees – prominent amongst them Henry Kissinger, King Hussein of Jordan, Yasser Arafat, Mrs. Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios, and the Vietnamese freedom fighters General Giap and
