Goodbye, Allah Rakhi – By Ras Siddiqui
In memory of Noor Jahan Our best-known Pakistani nightingale is gone. Her journey from birth (real name Allah Rakhi as reported by the BBC) in...
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Rabbi Shergill – Music Review – By Veeresh M.
Rabbi Shergill – Music Review – By Veeresh M. I don`t know about technical brilliance and electronic wizardly… but I know what will be playing...
India’s Policy Options Vis-a-Vis Post OBL Pakistan – By Dost Mittar
What if the US decides to further shift its so-called War on Terror from Afghanistan to Pakistan and seeks India’s help in this endeavor? It...
Eight Songs I’d Take With Me to a Desert Island – By Asif Naqshbandi
The BBC Radio programme, “Desert Island Discs” recently celebrated its 70th anniversary and the occasion had me thinking about the eight songs I would choose...
A Candid Interview With Saeed Anwar – By Nadeem Khan
For once, a buccaneering effort by the lithe Pakistani opener went in vain, although his 140 in the third Coca Cola Independence Cup Final against...
The Myth of Growth: Pakistan’s Lost Opportunity – By Zee M.
The Myth of Growth:Pakistan’s Lost Opportunity It is June 2001. The new Government is still pondering over what to do with the economy. The Pakistani...
The People’s Poet – By Mohammad Gill
Ahmad Faraz is a peoples’ poet. He speaks in the metaphors of prophecy and vision that transcends rhetoric and narrow nationalism. He is truly an...
Age of the Earth and Its Measures – By Mohammad Gill
Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the Earth; of the Night and the Day; in the sailing of the ships through the Ocean...
30 Days in Afghanistan – Dinner Conversations
I feel the room getting smaller, I want to find an excuse to leave. Why did I decide to show up? I’ve managed to stay...
Mahatma Gandhi’s Progeny – By Farzana Versey
“Let the minorities understand that their real safety lies in the goodwill of the majority”. (Words of wisdom at the recently-concluded RSS executive council meeting)...
A Nation of Beggars – By Murad Ali Baig
Perhaps someday India will find a leader who has the courage to proclaim “Ameeri badao” instead of “gareebi hatao” and let loose India’s gigantic potential....
A Work In Progress – By F. Khan
The founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was blessed with an acute eye for property and in creating Pakistan, he put Pakistan at a crossroads...
Bangladesh: Democracy On The Move – By Fuad Chowdhury
A powerful and popular youth uprising in 1990, similar to the recent events in Egypt, Bangladesh achieved a democratic government from the President General Ershad, who had come to...
What the Politicians Will Not Tell You About the Economy – By Shahzad Kazi
The single biggest issue with the economy is that the US became non-competitive in the global economy and moved manufacturing out. As we are heading...
The Ravian Renaissance – By Kamal Uddin Azfar
Ravi Magazine- The Ravin Experience – Kamal Uddin Azfar
A Voice from America – By Prof. Waseem Anwar
A voice from america – Prof. Waseem Anwar Prof. Anwar is an old Ravian and a Fulbright fellow at English Dept at Indiana University...
Massacre of a Language – By Adil Najam
urdu alphabets Although our son is only five months old, like all new parents we tend to be overeager about ‘planning’ his future. One element...
Why didn’t the Scientific Revolution happen in Islam? – By Pervez Hoodbhoy
Every great civilization writes its own history, selectively extracts data from the past, and then proves to its satisfaction that its greatness has no peer...
Book Review: Friends Not Masters [Autobiography of General Ayub Khan]
Book Review: Friends Not Masters Author: Mohammad Ayub Khan Review by Raza Bashir Even though it is an autobiography that the author calls a...
Psychology of Suicide ’Bombers’ – By Khalid Sohail
Who are the people who get involved in “terrorist attacks”? Why would someone kill innocent civilians? What kind of personalities and philosophies do such people...
10 Kinds of People of Pakistan – By Khaled Ahmed
10 Kinds of People of Pakistan – Khaled Ahmed [Download PDF]
The Argumentative Amartya? – By Farzana Versey
The tragedy of Amartya Sen is of being a non-hero, a Buddha without renunciation. There has been a great deal of flurry over his new...
Building Barriers in Britain – By Farouq Taj
The veil is driving a wedge between Muslims and their neighbours British Muslims have been at the receiving end of much criticism lately. Everyone seems...
Burqah, Secularism & Liberalism – By Raza Habib
They (orthodox Muslims) are ready to cry foul when something happens in France while being supportive of Taliban oppression in our side of the world....
