The Taliban may curate the museum. The newsroom must curate the context. Without that context, international television risks giving an extremist movement something it has always sought, not necessarily agreement, but attention; not necessarily legitimacy, but spectacle.
For an Indian audience, the most meaningful response to W.R.A.P. is not the comforting declaration that Indians and Pakistanis are identical. Such a claim can erase real histories and differences as readily as nationalism exaggerates them.
But tearing down a clubhouse will not lower a family's grocery bill or write a line of exportable code. India's chance to close the gap with the economies that outran it will not wait for a hearing date in September, and neither should the country's attention.
Taslima Nasrin’s homecoming deserves to be welcomed. A writer should be able to return to a city she considers home without fearing violence. The harder test will come when the symbolism fades. Will the government protect her if her criticism becomes inconvenient to the people now celebrating her return?
They are the Buddhist Kung Fu nuns of Drukpa lineage, known globally for trekking across the Himalayas to clean trash, paddling through mountain rivers to break centuries-old taboos to educate others on women's health, and adopting martial arts as a way to champion gender equality
Bangladeshi director Rezwan Shahriar Sumit's acclaimed debut feature film "Nonajoler Kabbo" won the Best Film in the Asian Select NETPAC category of the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival, reports our New Delhi correspondent
It was announced last year that Jemima Goldsmith would be writing and producing her first romantic-comedy – under the banner of her company Instinct Production – titled What's Love Got To Do With It? Reports further added that she was to collaborate with Indian film-maker Shekhar Kapur on the film, which would be his first since the 2007 Oscar-winner Elizabeth: The Golden Age
In a major development towards the revival of international cricket in Pakistan, the South African cricket team arrived in Karachi on Saturday after a break of 14 years
Since her childhood days, Ayesha Siddiqua has watched absolute male dominance in solemnising Muslim marriages
After the very successful national debut, Bangladesh prepares to participate for the second time in the 69th edition of the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in USA in May 2021
Australian opener David Warner has said "sorry" to Mohammed Siraj and Team India after members of the visiting team were subjected to alleged racial abuse by a section of a the home crowd during the third Test at the famous Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Sri Lankan cricket great and former captain Kumar Sangakarra condemned the racial abuse recently faced by the Indian players in Australia, demanding actions against the culprit, Daily Mirror reported
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has agreed to exempt the film industry from entertainment tax for a period of two years in view of the Covid crisis and its deleterious impact on the industry
Virat Kohli, the Indian cricket captain currently taking a break as he celebrated the birth of a baby girl, joined many others in condemning reported incidents of racial abuse during the third Test between Australia and India, saying it was sad to see what happened with his teammates at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Bangladesh will be the "Country in Focus" at the 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India, which begins in Goa from January 16
Hazara University, in Manshera in Pakistan, has issued a new dress code for the students, faculty and administration staff working there
Regional English language officers at the US Embassy here will enhance the English teaching competency of the teachers of Delhi government schools
Mahtab sinks into a chair with his two-year-old child as the TV news channels play the news of the Covid vaccination dry run
In 2016, she started small—out of the same premises she lives with her family—more of an experiment than a business
