Javed Akbar

  • Javed Akbar wrote a new post 4 years ago

    Due to closure of air space, all international flights are suspended, so we prepared ourselves for indefinite residential confinement in this quiet neighborhood, my brother-in-law’s comfortable house close to t […]

  • What an irony.

    Indian PM Modi’s opinion article in the New York Times on Gandhi’s 150th anniversary coincided on its front page with a stunning image of distraught Kashmiri women, endlessly waiting for their […]

  • It’s safe to say that Canada has always been one of the cooler countries in the world. It’s important to remember that despite Trudeau’s scandal, Canadians remain unshaken in the values of liberal democracy, fair […]

  • “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but, to be America’s friend is fatal.”
    — Henry Kissinger
    America and its NATO allies displaced and killed millions for no other reason except a preposterous and […]

  • Nightmarish scenes in the valley of Swat in northern Pakistan – a major tourist attraction known for its ‘indescribable beauty and serenity’ mark the latest stage of that nation’s crisis, brought to a boil […]

  • The world usually hears very little about the labours of the legislature that sits uneasily in Kabul. However, when representatives of a tradition-bound minority within Afghanistan lobbied for, and got, their […]