Cross Connections

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 ...

Promoting promiscuity by Farzana Versey The Indian government is prepared. It is providing 150 vending machines at the Commonwealth Game...

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...

“I’d rather be called a terrorist than an Indian.” This comment was made a while ago following reports of some Pakistanis pretending to be I...

I am tired of the pretense that passes for freedom of expression in the media. It has happened to me in my country, India, in the past. At...

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...