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The travesty that was Bradley Manning’s trial is a topic for another forum. Reading about the court proceedings, what immediately…
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So I was queued up at the university train-ticket shop. A middle-aged man was sitting on a sofa while his…
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The night of the happy day when Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google had declared to the world that privacy…
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Dr Abdus Salam, the late Pakistani particle physicist is the only Muslim physicist till date to have been awarded the Nobel…
The Ghost of Bob Dylan: On the two models of poetry
I remember I first listened to Bob Dylan’s songs back in 2004 when I was studying in the small town…
Re-Modeling Iqbal: Why Iqbal is too important to be given up!
Dr Muhammad Iqbal wrote the national song of India, has been declared the national poet of Pakistan, and served as…
