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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...

MJ AkbarPakistan is not a state. It is a state of mind, conceived in a strange supremacism, bred in distance...

MJ Akbar Aurangzeb, disruptive in anything that did not conform to his narrow view, changed the official calendar from the...

MJ AkbarTHE Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is right. Aurangzeb is irrelevant to contemporary India. Aurangzeb is the patron saint and...

MJ Akbar IN 1970, at the coldest point of the Cold War, when American confidence had been shaken by virtual...

MJ Akbar THE Nobel Prize for Peace might be a step or two beyond the horizon but Donald Trump and...

MJ Akbar Those who prefer television might want to check out a great classic of the medium, a masterpiece of...

MJ Akbar THE lips said it, the mind read it. Some hours after war broke out in the White House...