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A good question

A good question

Title: India vs Pakistan: Why Can’t We Just Be Friends? By: Husain Haqqani Paperback: 175 pages Publisher: Juggernaut, India (2016) Price: INR 299 What stops India and Pakistan from being...
Teen-to-teen in troubled times

Teen-to-teen in troubled times

Title: Tanya Tania By: Antara Ganguli Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2016 (India, US and UK) Paperback: 215 pages Price: INR 180 A lively exchange of letters starts in 1992 between two teenage girls, Tanya...
A “dove” girl’s quest for peace

A “dove” girl’s quest for peace

Whenever the words ‘’India-Pakistan’’ come to mind, so does war (1965, 1971, Kargil), Cold War, cricket clashes, bans on broadcasting media, Samjhota Express and Mumbai attacks…  the list...
Pakistan returns Indian soldier as goodwill gesture

Pakistan returns Indian soldier as goodwill gesture

By Adnan Malik LAHORE: Indian soldier Chandu Babulal Chohan has been returned to his home country via the Wagah Border. The Indian soldier was handed over to BSF officials at the border along with...
Indian government grants visa to Pakistani actors

Indian government grants visa to Pakistani actors

Despite ongoing tensions with Pakistan, the Indian government issued visas to Pakistani actors Adnan Siddiqui and Sajal Ali on Saturday. Ever since Indo-Pakistan relations deteriorated due to...
India, Pakistan fishermen: caught in a web of hostility

India, Pakistan fishermen: caught in a web of hostility

When 230 Indian fishermen released from Pakistani prisons disembarked in Veraval, Gujarat on 29 December, Dhirubhai Gohil, 28, was waiting with a picture of his elder brother, Kalubhai, 35. As...
India, Pakistan: So near and yet so far – MilneDo

India, Pakistan: So near and yet so far – MilneDo

At Wagah border on Sunday, the cyclists who had set off from Delhi and Lahore respectively calling for a thaw in India-Pakistan relations, tried to wave and connect with each other across the iron...
Om Puri: The Reel Pakistani

Om Puri: The Reel Pakistani

“Commercial cinema pays my bills; parallel cinema keeps my ego satisfied,” Om Puri tells Instep as we sit down to chat on one of his trips to Karachi for the filming of Actor in Law. instep...
Farewell Om Puri (October 18, 1950 – January 6, 2017)

Farewell Om Puri (October 18, 1950 – January 6, 2017)

The legendary Indian actor leaves a legacy of humanistic and compassionate values and peace aspirations Legendary actor Om Puri’s untimely death has saddened film and peace lovers not only in India...
Pakistan cyclists support India’s Milne Do group

Pakistan cyclists support India’s Milne Do group

A group of Pakistani cyclists have announced their support for the Milne Do (Let’s Meet) peace group that set off on January 1, 2017 from India Gate, New Delhi calling for peace between India and...