Cross Connections

Should culture be a denial of history? And what history ought to be remembered? When Karnataka decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan in thei...

If you like your cappuccino flat, then head to 'Madras Cafe'. No one is looking for a typical Bollywood film — and thanks, but I ...

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...

I hate missiles. They are inhuman. But, of course, you might say, that is the idea. I hate missiles because I like a fair fight, if at all....

"mez se jab meri tasweer hataai hogi har taraf mujhko tadapta hua paaya hoga" (My pictures taken off the shelf Would have spread ...

Joshua’s lips quivered just a bit. This was sadness that crept stealthily, crushing leaves underfoot but not before the trees had been laden...

Donald Trump loves America so much that he wants Libya. And China too if he could get past the noodles and fake Rolexes. There was a time w...

The headline is deliberately sensational. This is how the women officers are treated – with scant respect and without getting their due. Wo...

The most amazing aspect about the Wikileaks scandal is that it talks about an Afghan War. I am afraid, but where has it been documented as a...

Would you like to sell your story to help promote war? Do you believe that troops marching into terrain that has abused women would truly he...

Of Nations and Notions The Bangladesh India Forgot by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, December 16, 2009 On December 16, a nation was...

The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban inside its borders, warning that if it does not act mor...

Barack Obama’s plans are those of a man in a hurry to divert attention from issues back home. Clinton did it. Bush did it. He is doing it. T...

Take this. An Army psychiatrist. Frustration. Opposes war in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was being sent off. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is no...

I often find the Western media’s hurry in pronouncing the end of a movement when one of their leaders is dead rather juvenile. Baitullah Meh...

Okay. We now have our own indigenous nuclear powered submarine. At 110 metres long and 11 metres wide, it does seem like something you would...

America commemorates the soldiers who have died in wars on Memorial Day. For most people it is a long weekend about things they will do – ...

What is real and what is unreal? In a state of delirium, pumped up with medication, laid up in bed, swathed in white from a lightbulb that h...

I am a mix of angry, very angry… Where are we heading with this? How does it help anyone? We are manufacturing a state of tension....

Scene 1 “This is the third Farzana we have had since morning,” she said. I gave the polite smile one manages at beauty salo...