Cross Connections

Often, the most meaningful things are said in the simplest manner. One must, therefore, appreciate this effort to get Indians and Pakis...

Milne do. Let us meet. This is how the peace narrative of India-Pakistan relations go. Some of us have expressed reservations, emphasising h...

Are India and Pakistan at war? If we take a pragmatic view, then there has never been peace between the two nations. Does this transl...

Why should a former Pakistani cricketer not get a visa to visit India? The obvious reason is that his son is married to underworld don Daw...

Not many in Pakistan would have heard about their cricket team for the blind. Fewer would have known about Zeeshan Abbasi, the captain. ...

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of t...

Is hatred a handicap? Can't you move with it? In fact, people keep alive ideologies and patriotic zeal, the killer instinct in many comp...

The Ajmer Sharif Dargah in north India has become for politics what the Wagah border is for peace activists.  It is just so much melting...

I understand that when a politician is on a private visit to a country, he does not speak on behalf of the country. Mani Shankar Aiyar, by v...

Pakistan gave India the honour of being the Most F…. Nation. The F stands for Favoured. When Pakistan does that to us, we are truly f……. O...

Oops, you did it again! Krishna and Khar This is Asif Ali Zardari’s shrewdest move. Sending Hina Rabbani Khar on what amounts to be the...

Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi has hit out at India and the Indian media. It is amusing, so let me present here an imagined conversation b...

I find the phrase “diplomatic offensive” rather amusing. So, one such offensive took place yesterday when Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali K...

Omar Abdullah has never been a particularly responsible man. He takes after his father. The guy who at one time supped and slurped with the ...

This is the front page of today's TOI. It is a report. How can the 'aman ki asha' logo (highlighted by me) appear right at the c...

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...

This Pakistani shook hands with an Indian Army official’s wife and pronounced that she suffered from severe migraine. That is the reason Dir...

“I’m not accusing the government of Pakistan at all. In fact, we believe there are a number of actors in Pakistan who may be beyond the cont...

I am not surprised that some student from the National Institute of Design (NID) posed as a journalist to enter the court premises and later...