Explaining the faithRAZA NAEEMEntrenched Monarchy Thwarts Aspirations for Modernity, proclaims the Dubai Memo of the online edition of The New York Times on January 21, 2010; At Ye
Forgetting historyRAZA NAEEMSO now it is official. In the wake of the alleged Christmas plot to blow up a Detroit-bound plane, we are told that the enterprising bomber, a Nigeria
Imperial interpreterRAZA NAEEMTHE United States has been particularly proficient in producing a significant crop of intellectuals on both ends of the political spectrum since the e
Great about-faceRAZA NAEEMON September 1, 2009, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi celebrated 40 years at the helm of the Libyan revolution. As a young, charismatic army captain in 1969,
The worst of every worldRAZA NAEEMTARIQ ALIS earlier books on Pakistan, including Can Pakistan Survive?, ran into controversies. His latest book on the countrys turbulent politics, The
Dangerous liaisonRAZA NAEEMllah, Army and America or, to put it succinctly, the 3 As is a formula coined by social scientists often used to explain the political and social ma
Afghan chronicleRAZA NAEEMAFGHANISTAN has historically been a tortured land. Not since the end of the Cold War, heralded by the withdrawal of Soviet forces from the country in
Feudal milieuRAZA NAEEMTHE late Eqbal Ahmad once wrote that feudalism had become the whipping boy of Pakistans intelligentsia, who neither understand feudalisms origins nor
A little dying worldRAZA NAEEMThe Pakistani author Daniyal Mueenuddin speaks about the countrys feudal make-up, its transformations and the role of women in that society.
Feudal milieuRAZA NAEEMTHE late Eqbal Ahmad once wrote that feudalism had become the whipping boy of Pakistans intelligentsia, who neither understand feudalisms origins nor
A little dying worldRAZA NAEEMThe Pakistani author Daniyal Mueenuddin speaks about the countrys feudal make-up, its transformations and the role of women in that society.
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
