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From the shores of Mumbai to the mountains of Chitral: Let’s exchange peace on New Year

From the shores of Mumbai to the mountains of Chitral: Let’s exchange peace on New Year

As she entered the classroom, Zaibun Nisa Hussain, teacher at Langlands School & College, Chitral, Pakistan, waved an envelope in the air.  The students knew what it was, and the room...
Javed Bashir: My family would always recount their happy memories of India

Javed Bashir: My family would always recount their happy memories of India

At a time when concerts of Ghulam Ali are being cancelled or facing disruption threats, and a recent play in Gurgaon by a theatre troupe from Pakistan was disrupted, Pakistani singer Javed Bashir has...
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’

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...
Indians crowdfund Pakistani girl’s medical treatment

Indians crowdfund Pakistani girl’s medical treatment

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...
Let peace prevail #NSATalks ​

Let peace prevail #NSATalks ​

A heart-felt plea for India and Pakistan to talk, rather than using the exchange of fire at the border to indulge in a blame-game and tensions that only benefit war mongers Ahead of the much-awaited...
The kindness of strangers

The kindness of strangers

Citizens of Mumbai open up their arms and hearts, raise Rs 4.5 lakh for a sick Pakistani teen  “A 15 year old patient of Wilson’s Disease Saba is reaching Mumbai for life saving treatment...