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Mahesh Bhatt ropes in Ghulam Ali for ‘Milne Do’

Mahesh Bhatt ropes in Ghulam Ali for ‘Milne Do’

Nov 06, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 3

The ghazal maestro will sing for an Indo-Pak play to be staged in April 2016 in India and Pakistan, with live music by the Laal Band Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Thursday said he has roped in Pakistani...
Haider Rizvi, my Pakistani brother

Haider Rizvi, my Pakistani brother

Oct 31, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1

Haider Rizvi, a friend from Pakistan, suddenly passed away in Lahore. I knew Haider since our student days at Columbia University’s Journalism School. Haider was a poet, an award-winning...
India to send Ramzan home as a ‘return gift’ to Pakistan for Geeta

India to send Ramzan home as a ‘return gift’ to Pakistan for Geeta

Oct 30, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 2

India has decided to send Karachi’s runaway boy, Mohammad Ramzan, as a ‘return gift’ to Pakistan for returning Geeta nearly 15 years after she accidentally crossed over to their...
Being Indian doesn’t mean that we should hate Pakistan – Kailash Satyarthi

Being Indian doesn’t mean that we should hate Pakistan – Kailash Satyarthi

Oct 30, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

MUMBAI: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Friday said intolerance is on the rise and there is a “dialogue deficit” between the government and its people. “There is significant...
Narratives 67 years on

Narratives 67 years on

Oct 30, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

The partition generation represented in Anam Zakaria’s book appears to be asking a singular question: how does one choose one home over the other? What role do oral histories play in the collective...
The city of the Taj welcomes Pakistani guests, fetes peace activists

The city of the Taj welcomes Pakistani guests, fetes peace activists

Oct 30, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

A recent two-day event in Agra in memory of the late peace activist Nirmala Deshpande honours a Pakistani peace activist and welcomes Pakistani delegates At a time of growing intolerance in India...
Partition generation is less bitter than younger Pakistanis, Indians: Anam Zakaria

Partition generation is less bitter than younger Pakistanis, Indians: Anam Zakaria

Oct 29, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Development professional Anam Zakaria led the Oral History Project of the non-profit Citizens Archive of Pakistan. Her book, The Footprints of Partition, explores attitudes across four generations of...
The need for an alternative India-Pakistan discourse

The need for an alternative India-Pakistan discourse

Oct 29, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

We must carry a resolve in our hearts. Those who seek to divide and break us will never rest – and neither should we India and Pakistan, more than two separate countries with their ups and...
Collaboration and conviviality in Dubai

Collaboration and conviviality in Dubai

Oct 28, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Bangalore filmmaker Mir Imran’s documentary ‘Beyond Boundaries’ features stories of friendship between Pakistanis and Indians — a welcome respite from the divisive narrative...
“After the play, audience members hugged us and apologised for the incident”

“After the play, audience members hugged us and apologised for the incident”

Oct 27, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

GURGAON CHOOSES THEATRE OVER THEATRICS When some protestors in Gurgaon interrupted a play by a Pakistani group on Saturday, the audience stood up for the artistes and ensured that the show went on On...