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Painting Pakistan
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/04/2025
» Re: "India and Pakistan troops exchange fire", (World, April 28).
Warped curiosity
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/09/2024
» Re: "Taste of hell", (BP photo, Sept 1). It is bad enough that kids are encouraged to play with guns and clamber all over tanks on Army Day, but now we have a shopping centre that has established a "Hell Space" for a week to entertain curious, and I mean curious people, including youngsters.
The popular decimation of India's democracy
Oped, Pranab Bardhan, Published on 18/05/2024
» India's ongoing parliamentary election, in which nearly a billion people casting their votes over a six-week period, should represent an extraordinary exercise of democracy. The bleak reality, however, is that the election appears poised to consolidate a decade-long process of democratic decay, which has included the decimation of liberal institutions and practices and weakening of political competition. After all, the leader who has presided over this process -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- remains wildly popular.
Praise for milk
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/10/2023
» Re: "PM in Hong Kong to court investors, drum up business", (Business, Oct 10).
All deities equal
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/09/2023
» Re: "Dealing with deities" (PostBag, Aug 31) and "Demon or deity?", (PostBag, Aug 29).
Dems in crisis mode
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/08/2023
» Re: "Democrats in no rush to lead the opposition", (BP, Aug 30).
Demon or deity?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/08/2023
» Re: "Court asked to help shift 'demon' statue", (BP, Aug 26).
Cultural policing is bad for business
Oped, Siranan Dechakupt, Published on 22/09/2021
» The owner of Thai dessert shop Madame Choops recently got herself in hot water with religious authorities when she made her A-lua -- a classic Thai dessert in various Buddha amulet shapes.
In Zimbabwe, literature is protest
Oped, Beaven Tapureta, Published on 10/10/2020
» In November 2017, when a military coup removed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's head of state after 37 years of rule, euphoria gripped the whole country. Many saw it as an end to "the house of hunger" -- the title of a widely read 1978 novel by Dambudzo Marechera that described the people's suffering under tyranny.