Opinion

The more disturbing the image, the greater the emotional response

We should stop asking people to tighten their belts; some have already tightened them so much that we cannot breathe

Religious minorities hold reserved seats in the Senate, the National Assembly and every provincial assembly

Punjab was transformed by this bargain

Beyond consumer exploitation, this policy carries severe environmental and agricultural consequences

Representation of women on important topics that concern them just as much as men has been a problem for long

When we say sports and entertainment know no boundaries, we contextualise them in cross-border politics and warfare

Six years ago, I described motivational speakers as the new form of Banarasi Thugs

'Nothing is in order because our genetic makeup as a nation is out of order. The question is, can anything be done'

I write this assessment in early September when Trump's Iran was more than six months old

More judges and courtrooms matter, but delay is also produced by thousands of smaller frictions

Politics in Pakistan has never been smooth or tolerant, but with the escalating debate over creating new provinces

Pakistan's elite co-opt one another is certainly not to serve democracy, the country, or its people

Over the years technology improved, the internet boomed, and now news was available for free

Most of the Chinese conversation revolved around the rule of law

Manmohan Singh-led UPA government was completing a decade in power

Analogy is useful because both universes are visible to everyone

Douglass North's institutional theory provides a useful explanation for this equilibrium

All systems are sustained by mutual attraction; this truth is hidden in the life of the stars

India's placing of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in "abeyance" has no legal justification

India's deeply ingrained institutional hostility toward Pakistan blinds its military leadership to strategic realities

Most worrying part of Modi's speech was not his familiar account of India's economic transformation

Iran's systematic targeting of high-value technical assets in the US 5th Fleet in Bahrain has caused extensive damage

Science itself is full of ideas stranger than fiction

Elon Musk and a bunch of other self-righteous types always make this claim against immigration

CSCs are prima facie civilian objects and perform an important range of civilian functions

Across the science fiction stories, you find three responses to entropy: annihilation, resistance and preservation

National AI Policy 2025 promises to train one million people and produce 10,000 trainers

Britain entered the war as the world's banker and left it a debtor

Abolishing an outdated system is one thing, replacing it with a functioning one is quite another

Pakistan has spent decades mastering art of borrowing, refinancing and servicing debt

Some people seem to think friendship is measured by attendance

AI companies are destroying books to train their LLMs

We need to stop treating ordinary people's languages as inadequate for science, law, medicine, technology or thought

Taliban administration operating from Kabul is seeking to end its isolation

Successful stewardship of an educational institution hinges upon pedagogical, non-pedagogical duties

Empowering girls must begin long before marriage

Such defiance of the rule of law hardly inspires confidence among the people at large or foreign investors

Real origin of this conversation lies in global market projections and fears of a wider recession

Officially, this is just business catching up to disruption

It is time to ask whether the problem lies with an apathetic public or with messengers who have failed to inspire them

This war seems to be taking on a momentum of its own, giving little impression that mediation in any form survives

When merit becomes negotiable, institutional competence slowly disappears

CSS breeds desperation among youth - delivering pyrrhic societal success alongside real individual, collective failure

Someone from an underrepresented community should not have to be exemplary to justify being in the room

Government will do well to build a spine, collect experts, read models, take leap of faith in building anew

Art functions as transhistorical form of correspondence

Protecting public health should not mean choosing between economic growth, cumbersome regulations

ASCs were created under the Area Study Centres Act No. XLV of 1975 by Parliament to "promote specialised,

Much of India's contemporary political debate can be understood through this clash of visions