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When boundaries blur: A strange kind of home-coming

When boundaries blur: A strange kind of home-coming

Oct 25, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 3

Over the last month, India-Pakistan relations, always fraught at the best of times, have seen one of their periodic lows. A terrorist strike in Uri has catalysed the usual sabre-rattling, with people...
Voices of peace oppose war in India and Pakistan

Voices of peace oppose war in India and Pakistan

Oct 24, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Activists and artists call for peace as tensions grow between the neighbouring countries.Saif Khalid When 24-year-old Aliya Harir left her home in Islamabad, Pakistan, for India on September 27,...
Indo-Pak peace group launches “No to War’ campaign

Indo-Pak peace group launches “No to War’ campaign

Oct 23, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

The oldest and largest people-to-people lobby group in the region, Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), in its national committee meeting held in Jammu on October 22nd...
From India with love

From India with love

Oct 23, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

When diversity of ideas is limited to two polarised views and there is one accepted truth, it is time to voice dissent On a bus to Mullanpur I found the bus heading to Moga parked outside the bus...
Banning cross-border cultural collaboration only strengthens extremists

Banning cross-border cultural collaboration only strengthens extremists

Oct 22, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 0

In today’s interconnected world, whether it’s appreciating music and film or fighting polio, we increasingly share our joys and sorrows The latest casualty of the ongoing confrontation between...
Rational view: Mahesh Bhatt backs Karan Johar

Rational view: Mahesh Bhatt backs Karan Johar

Oct 15, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

By Hiten J. Trivedi On Friday afternoon, the members of Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association of India (COEAI) conducted a meeting regarding the controversial ban on Karan Johar’s...
Peace activist from Pakistan says love will always win despite all the hatred around

Peace activist from Pakistan says love will always win despite all the hatred around

Oct 08, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

The war-like situation on both sides of Indo-Pak border remains unchanged. But the recent exchanges on social media between India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and a young...
Youth peace leaders light the way

Youth peace leaders light the way

Oct 08, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Amidst border tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, there was a ray of light in the 11th Global Youth Peace Festival, Chandigarh, participated in by a 20-member student delegation from...
Climate change knows no boundaries… nor do people’s hearts

Climate change knows no boundaries… nor do people’s hearts

Oct 07, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1

Pakistani woman’s post for peace betwen India and Pakistan goes viral Alizay Jaffer, 29, works with communities to help them cope with the impact of climate change and extreme weather events...
South Asian women journalists oppose war hype

South Asian women journalists oppose war hype

Oct 02, 2016 Articles, Featured Top Stories, Global Media, News, Top Stories 7

Prominent women journalists from around the region have joined hands against the war hype between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. In a joint statement of Sepember 30, 2016, they urge political...