My readers might have noticed that I was totally silent following the attempted assassination of the courageous young education activist Malala Yusufzai from the Swat region. I was silenced by... read more →
Professor: Arrest of Pakistani Girl for Blasphemy Part of Decades-Old Witch Hunts.
Coleridge long ago said poets were humankind's unacknowledged legislators. But if you care to read further you might agree with me that novelists too could enjoy this privileged position. Recently,... read more →
The winds of change of change, however blusteringly, have ushered in a new vice-chancellor at Darul Uloom Deoband with the appointment of Mawlana Ghulam Vastanvi. While the world's attention was... read more →
The recent assassination... read more →