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Celebrating the colours of life

Celebrating the colours of life

By coming together to celebrate happy occasions like Eid, Holi, Diwali, Christmas we accept and rejoice in the differences and lead the way to peace in our region By Huma Ahmar Last Thursday evening...
Lit fest hopping: from JLF to LLF

Lit fest hopping: from JLF to LLF

Literature festivals on both sides of the border draw similar crowds. The best part is they bring at least some Indians and Pakistanis together By Sehyr Mirza When the bus from Delhi reaches the...
A student “exchange for change”

A student “exchange for change”

 A long-running student exchange project facilitates interactions between Pakistani and Indian students In January, a 29-member delegation of Indian school students and teachers from Mumbai, New...
Scions of two India-Pakistan Rajput families to tie knot today

Scions of two India-Pakistan Rajput families to tie knot today

By Akhilesh Kumar Singh & Vimal Bhatia | tnn Jaisalmer/Jaipur/Bikaner: Scions of two prominent Rajput families from India and Pakistan will tie the knot in Jaipur on Friday. The rare cross-border...
“Patriotism” – boon or bane?

“Patriotism” – boon or bane?

An Indian wonders who his enemy is across the border. Is it everything and everyone associated with Pakistan, security forces or something more subtle? By Samir Gupta It is twilight on a Wednesday...
Teenage Indo-Pak Peace Agents

Teenage Indo-Pak Peace Agents

A pair of teenagers from India and Pakistan talk about a project that began when they realised the commonalities and resolved to work out differences “We believe peace is possible,” say...
Singh’s Sufi song

Singh’s Sufi song

A chat with Dr Madan Gopal Singh, an intellectual and poet turned mystic singer By Zaman Khan To admit my ignorance at the outset, I had never heard the name of the group Chaar Yaar, particularly of...
“If you want to read Manto, you will find him”

“If you want to read Manto, you will find him”

Eminent historian Ayesha Jalal at the Kolkata Literary Meet Kalam talks about the relevance of Manto to India and Pakistan At the Kolkata Literary Meet known as ‘Kalam’, I attended an...
Aman ki Asha and the bad times in Indo-Pak relations

Aman ki Asha and the bad times in Indo-Pak relations

People-to-people contacts are necessary to keep the ball rolling but what is really needed is top level interventions, like the Aman ki Asha strategic seminar series and economic conferences that...
A little bit of Pakistan in Kolkata

A little bit of Pakistan in Kolkata

Come January, the city’s literary festivals provide us the opportunity to meet some scintillating minds from Pakistan By Ruchhita Kazaria Come January and my heart begins to sing. That is when...