Partition, not parturition, is the act of splitting. Although, I’m sure, one can feel much like the other. Parturition, so I’ve heard, feels much like splitting into discombobulated halves. And ...

Question: My two sisters and I inherited our parents’ Maricopa County home several months ago, and we have been arguing constantly. One of my sisters wants to live in the house at reduced rent, and my ...

During the Partition migration the idea of India was still in its infancy. The common people exhibited great compassion while lending a helping hand to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of the ...

C.M. Naim is primarily known to us as a scholar of Urdu literature. He has to his credit a number of works written during his stay in the US where he taught at the department of South Asian Languages ...

Jawaharlal Nehru famously gave Daman the title of ‘Poet of Freedom’ when he recited a poem at a public gathering in 1930 wherein the towering Congress leader was present. The friendship between the ...

ONE might wonder if the title of the book Zulmat-e-Neem Roz has something to do with Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon. The answer is no, not at all. In fact the writer, Mumtaz Shirin, in her ...