Cross Connections

From the film 'The Sweet Smell of Success' Years ago, a web portal I wrote for in the nascent stages of news and views on the Ne...

A Pakistani columnist decides that “introspection is not as fashionable as Roberto Cavalli shades” and goes on to pen an ode to all the b...

A Pakistani commentator has come up with a Pavlovian response to how Indians salivate over Pakistan’s misfortunes and are not all smelling o...

Before questioning Salman Khan about speaking to Pakistani news channel Express 24/7, since they have blocked Indian channels, the Shiv Sena...

Stephen Hawking is baulking at the wrong evolutionary tree. He may choose gravity over God to rationalise the creation of the universe, but ...

Now that we know Muslims can just do it, courtesy Junoon ’s Salman Ahmad, how are believers to manage abstinence? You forsake food, water an...

When David Cameron came to a shining India and spoke of a common culture, he failed to mention the problem Britons have with paan. Coloured ...

How did a rape victim become an icon and why? Is Jamshed Dasti a stand-alone, callous bloke trying to use pressure and clout to stifle justi...

Had Dr. Shah Faisal's father not been killed by “unidentified militants”, he would have been just another exam topper. It is a tragedy ...

An Indian Spy in Pakistan by Farzana Versey May 4, 2010 Is it just a fantasy to portray Madhuri Gupta as a hysterically vengeful mole? One...

Jaswant and Tharoor by Farzana Versey April 20, 2010 You had a stand-up comedian in your midst and you did not even notice. The beauty of J...

Star-crossed Borders by Farzana Versey Inside the well-rounded cosmopolitan atheist persona of Shujaat Rizvi, there was a Pakistani national...

He licked his index finger as he turned the pages of my passport. He had to merely stamp the page to say that I had returned home to Mumbai....

Maverick: Global Bubble of the Revivalist by Farzana Versey Covert, December 15-30 Those who left have it good. While Prime Minister Manmoha...

Maverick: The Indian Colonisers of India By Farzana Versey Covert, Aug 15-31 I miss those days. They would exclaim, “Oh, Indian!” and all yo...

Maverick: Some reflections on genuflection to the West By Farzana Versey Covert July 1-15 She was the dark horse. Yet, she made it. She won...

Maverick: Angst and the Alpha Male By Farzana Versey Covert, March 1-15 Never understood this coming-of-age stuff, especially if it refers t...

Maverick: The golden mean and the go-betweens By Farzana Versey Covert, Feb 1-15 It’s time for ideological palm-greasing. The ...

Maverick: It is only small change By Farzana Versey Covert January 1-15 In a few days Barack Obama will be formally anointed a...

Maverick: Style kosher of the natty neta By Farzana Versey Covert, December 1-15 Elections are not about braving the cold, heat, ...