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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...

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...