Monthly Archives: March 2012

“What is mine is mine, what is yours is mine too”.  Nowhere does this seem more true than in the case of international borders.  The list of countries with territorial claims on a neighbouring state is long.  Often, border disputes … Continue reading →

Happiness is not the product of the sum-total of one’s wealth or power.  Happiness, after all, comes from the simple pursuit of that which brings a smile to one’s face and joy to one’s heart.

Many people mourn the loss of the old world.  But I doubt if all past generations had even been privileged to mourn in like manner, for so little changed from one generation to the next.  Similarly, given the rapidity of  … Continue reading →

 Nothing is safe from the predatory instincts of man, neither animals, nor women, nor man himself. Creatures and fellow human beings are tortured, mutilated and variously put to death for food, for pleasure, to appease the gods, for service in … Continue reading →

Many learned treatises and dissertations, not to mention articles, have been written and are being written on every subject under the sky, attempting structural, sociological, political and historical analyses of contemporary issues.  So many, indeed, that were I to do … Continue reading →

One will search in vain for any two countries of the Ummah, sharing common borders, which do not harbour overt or barely-concealed hostility towards each other. … It is not just non-Muslim minorities which get the short shrift in Islamic … Continue reading →

Throughout history, and across cultures and civilizations, some women have played significant political roles in state and government, but their numbers were few and far between.  Besides, most of them were thrust to positions of power through royal succession or … Continue reading →

What’s in a name!  Surely not much, or else Pakistan, literally the Land of the Pure, would not be ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world year after year by Transparency International, a neutral watchdog.