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Blitz BureauTHE only immediate victor of America’s war on Iraq was Iran because it released Iraq’s Shia majority from the...

TURKEY survived the crisis of defeat and thereby its future because it was fortunate to find a leader like Kemal...

MJ Akbar AS the world gets pregnant once more with war, there is inevitable speculation about parentage. Genes do not...

Savitri Thakur IN 2012, the brutal Nirbhaya incident shocked the conscience of the nation. It also exposed the deep fissures...

Blitz BureauDEMOCRACIES are, rightly, subjected to a higher standard of scrutiny in the delivery of goods and services to the...

MJ Akbar If even 20,000 of the 93,000 had chosen Paradise instead of their village, the war of December 1971...

MJ Akbar AN unanswered question that has been sitting on the shelf of history for half-a-century may offer a clue...

MJ AkbarFOR seven decades since 1947, poverty has been demarcated by statistics. Economists found it useful in policy formulation and...

MJ Akbar MEDIA has become middle class. This might have been funny were its consequences not EDIA has become mid-MUDRA...

MJ Akbar IN October 1947 Pakistan set off what has become history’s longest continuous war with an arbitrary invasion of...