India & Pakistan Death and honourANITA JOSHUA in IslamabadThe honours showered on Sarabjit Singh following his murder in a Pakistani prison raise the question whether all this was the Indian state’s reward
Pakistan From exile to jailANITA JOSHUA in IslamabadThe arrest of Pervez Musharraf, the first of a former general by a civilian government, and the angry protests against him by lawyers take Pakistan th
Milestone of sortsANITA JOSHUA in IslamabadThe PPP-led government becomes the first civilian government to last its full term in Pakistan. But the compromises it had to make take away from t
Pakistan Fear of genocideANITA JOSHUA in IslamabadThe murderous campaign against Shias gains momentum, with outlawed Sunni outfits demanding that they be declared non-Muslims.
A cleric’s agendaAnita Joshua in IslamabadDEMOCRACY in Pakistan might just have turned a corner in mid-January. Given how little breathing space the democratic project has ever had in this cou
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.