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Jinnah’s house is burning Opinion December 31, 2020 Declan Walsh’s ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan’ augments a veritable genre – books on our embattled homeland by anglophone Western journalists. A layered title, unique biographical approach, and acute observation make this the most insightful among recent works of reportage on the land of the pure. Books of reportage on Pakistan were few and far between before the 1990s. Pakistanis had to content themselves either with reading history or huddling with a medium-wave radio to hear the BBC’s legendary Mark Tully. Emma Duncan commenced...

Tata Steel has decided to cancel its 2021 edition Tata Steel Bhubaneswar and Tata Steel Jharkhand Literary Meets in view of the zcovid-19 pandemic. The Bhubaneshwar and Jharkhand Literary Meets were 2016 and 2017 respectively, with the belief that culturally-rich regions like Odisha and Jharkhand need a festival that would celebrate literary and allied cultural pursuits, including dance, music, recitation, and theatrical performances.  The idea was to take Odisha and Jharkhand to a wider world audience and to bring the world closer to the two culturally-rich states in eastern India. Since it...

Heart-breaking news SECOND OPINION It’s been like a ritual. There are two things I need when I enter the waking world from my sleep. The first is a cup of hot tea, preferably Darjeeling but if not, anything resembling tea will do. A close second is the newspaper. When in Mumbai, I walk to the door with some anticipation and even anxiety to pick up the neatly folded bunch of four newspapers tucked into the door. I first scan the front pages of all. And then, one by one, move to the city pages. I then settle going beyond the headlines in some of the news items. Health news gets a special look...