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Identity intifada

And Identity? I asked

Explaining the faith

Entrenched Monarchy Thwarts Aspirations for Modernity, proclaims the Dubai Memo of the online edition of The New York Times on January 21, 2010; At Ye

April 2, 1967: Arab demonstrators, carrying pro-Cairo banners, marching through the streets of the British colony of Aden. The demonstrations were accompanied by three minor attacks against British troops. The popularity of the peoples wars in the north and the south of Yemen led to the British withdrawal from the south in November 1967 and victory for the republican forces in the north in July 1970.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Forgetting history

SO 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 interpreter

THE United States has been particularly proficient in producing a significant crop of intellectuals on both ends of the political spectrum since the e

Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli on September 9 at an event marking the 10th anniversary of the Sirte Declaration, the resolution adopted to establish the African Union.-ISMAIL ZETOUNY/REUTERS

Great about-face

ON September 1, 2009, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi celebrated 40 years at the helm of the Libyan revolution. As a young, charismatic army captain in 1969,

Tariq Ali: I dont talk about conspiracies. Everything written in the book is attested by facts.-SUSHANTA PATRONOBISH

The worst of every world

TARIQ ALIS earlier books on Pakistan, including Can Pakistan Survive?, ran into controversies. His latest book on the countrys turbulent politics, The

Dangerous liaison

llah, 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 chronicle

AFGHANISTAN 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 milieu

THE late Eqbal Ahmad once wrote that feudalism had become the whipping boy of Pakistans intelligentsia, who neither understand feudalisms origins nor

Daniyal Mueenuddin: 'Pakistan is such a feudal country that any story we write has its connections to feudalism in some way.'-SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

A little dying world

The Pakistani author Daniyal Mueenuddin speaks about the countrys feudal make-up, its transformations and the role of women in that society.

Daniyal Mueenuddin: 'Pakistan is such a feudal country that any story we write has its connections to feudalism in some way.'-SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

A little dying world

The Pakistani author Daniyal Mueenuddin speaks about the countrys feudal make-up, its transformations and the role of women in that society.

Feudal milieu

THE late Eqbal Ahmad once wrote that feudalism had become the whipping boy of Pakistans intelligentsia, who neither understand feudalisms origins nor