Tag Archives: Politics
[Contributed Short Story] A Politician’s Wife
[Contributed by Angelic Devil after several hundred requests.] Years ago, I saw “Rang de Basanti“. I felt awed, felt the blood rush to my face and wanted to go all out and do something for my country. It was in 2006, a time when my generation felt crippled and angry that they weren’t born in pre-independence days, when …
Whose lost boys?
Mohammed Hanif, the head of BBC Urdu service and the author of “A Case of Exploding Mangoes,” explores the internal crisis in India and Pakistan as an afterthought to recent terror strikes in Mumbai. [cf. The Lost Boys, Tehelka] He takes on Indian and Pakistani establishments and media agencies asking them not to point to …
