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October 13, 2008
Interview: Comrade Sobho Gianchandani
“I’ve never doubted that Pakistan would overlook my contribution” - Comrade Sobho Gianchandani At age 88, Comrade Sobho Gianchandani is one of the oldest living communists in the subcontinent. He has seen it all, done it all — and still…
April 8, 2008
The Riddle of Sphinx Sonia
No one knows better than the subcontinent, the power of the family drama. It presides over ordinary lives. It dominates the big screen and the small, and it certainly straddles the political theatre on a scale which makes a tele-dynasty…
November 9, 2007
Safety in Numbers
It was an impossible situation to secure. With the flight landing late, everything was behind schedule. It took almost an hour for the returning PPP leader to disembark, shuttle between terminals and make it to her custom-built armoured bus. By…
February 2, 2007
Tales from the Political Underworld
Tariq Ali is known for being a prolific writer, with both fiction and non-fiction to his credit. However, in the past six months, the author has produced works which fall into another genre of literature that he himself defines as…
January 3, 2007
Tourist Trap or Triumph?
The recent mini-conference on tourism launched by the omnipresent federal minister of tourism, Nilofer Bakhtiar, in the USA proved beyond a doubt that nothing has changed for tourism in the past three decades. It is the same script with new…