He unearthed horror of slave trade

Amjed Ullah Khan, who helped rescue 15 women from Hyderabad, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com how women get trapped in an underground slave market that 'sells' them to employers who force them......

26/11 set up India-Saudi strategic ties

'The attacks made clear to all the Gulf States that Pakistan was the nursery and sanctuary of extremist violence and that this violence threatened all the countries in the region.' IMAGE: General......

'Nationalism is a restrictive ideology'

'Patriotism is a sentiment, a feeling of belonging to a place.''Nationalism is an ideology, and like all ideologies, it is absolute and restrictive in nature,' Ashis Nandy, arguably India's leading......

Why the battle for Sanskrit needs to be joined

'It is a great misfortune that the Nehruvian Stalinists of India have colluded with the grand project of demeaning and destroying Sanskrit.' 'Today, the number of Sanskritists in India is low, and......

Afghan cricket: Swapping Kalashnikovs for cricket bats

Unlike football, which offends the sensibilities of some very conservative Muslims because it is normally played in shorts, cricket is played in long sleeves and trousers, in line with traditional......