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“I fully support peace between India and Pakistan”

“I fully support peace between India and Pakistan”

Oct 25, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

A South Indian student’s version of ‘Akele na jaana’, the Pakistani film song immortalized by Ahmad Rushdie and Mala Last week, I met Aditya Shrinivas, a Ph.D student from...
Why a Sena attack on Najam Sethi is ironic

Why a Sena attack on Najam Sethi is ironic

Oct 24, 2015 Articles, Blogs, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1

Dear Mr Najam Sethi, Ashamed as we are for what the Shiv Sena mob subjected you to last Monday, my concern here is not for the IndoPak series. You had emailed us in anguish that evening: “I am...
A plea for peace: Climb high, rather than dig​ deep

A plea for peace: Climb high, rather than dig​ deep

Oct 23, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

The experiences of the organisers and participants of the Aman Ki Asha Council at the Nagpur Model United Nations fly in the face of the misconceptions being currently bandied about. Less than six...
Noise in Mumbai… but Pakistan wrestlers win hearts in Pune

Noise in Mumbai… but Pakistan wrestlers win hearts in Pune

Oct 22, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 2

Jatin Desai, a peace activist and journalist in Mumbai, draws attention to an interesting front page recently. “It is about how a team of four wrestlers from Pakistan came to Pune, participated...
Shiv Sena ‘neither represents the citizens of Mumbai nor is its conduct a sign of patriotism’

Shiv Sena ‘neither represents the citizens of Mumbai nor is its conduct a sign of patriotism’

Oct 20, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1

Journalists from Mumbai and Karachi, who established a ‘sisterly relationship’ between their Press Clubs in 2011, protest the Shiv Sena’s attacks on Pakistanis in India Concerned journalists of...
Pakistani entrepreneur’s hospitality sends a goodwill message to India

Pakistani entrepreneur’s hospitality sends a goodwill message to India

Oct 19, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, Milne Do, News, Top Stories 5

A Pakistani fast food franchise owner’s gesture of hospitality to visiting Indians embodies the spirit of Aman ki Asha The owner of an American fast food chain in Pakistan is offering free...
Pakistan’s Mother Teresa with roots in Bapu’s Kathiawar sheltered Geeta

Pakistan’s Mother Teresa with roots in Bapu’s Kathiawar sheltered Geeta

Oct 17, 2015 Blogs, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Deaf and mute Indian woman Geeta is set to return home from Pakistan after 12 years thanks largely to Salman Khan-starrer Bollywood film Bajrangi Bhaijaan’s success. The reel life story of the...
The real cost of conflict in South Asia

The real cost of conflict in South Asia

Oct 16, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 3

Born in the Rawalpindi area in 1943, Suresh Bakshi was about four years old when his family left their ancestral home after Partition in 1947. But he still remembers and has strong feelings for the...
‘It is in the interest of both sides to normalise relations’

‘It is in the interest of both sides to normalise relations’

Oct 14, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

‘If it was left to the people, this conflict would be very different,’ says Christophe Jaffrelot, prominent French political scientist and expert on South Asian politics with a particular focus...
Indians crowdfund Pakistani girl’s medical treatment

Indians crowdfund Pakistani girl’s medical treatment

Oct 14, 2015 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Around the time that Shiv Sainiks were blackening Sudheendra Kulkarni’s face on Monday morning, a Pakistani girl and her mother were getting ready to leave Mumbai with warm memories of a 49-day...