TNS Columnists

Banning commercial theatre, thought to be obscene or vulgar, is by no means profitable for the revival of this art form

Pakistanis walk leisurely; they also think and act leisurely

Standardising culture or civilisation is a perplexing proposition in a country with myriad cultures, civilisations and sub-sets of belief systems

The relationship between the Islamic world and the West (Christian world) is not defined entirely through crusades

“The ways of God are neither wanton nor absurd” is a belief as firmly held in the Muslim world as the conviction in the Hellenic world that individuals can be swotted as wanton flies by the gods

The Siege:Three Days of Terror Inside the Taj’ is a gripping account of the Mumbai attacks and a great insight into a murky world of espionage and international terror

Today, a team of two half-wits is enough to run a successful puncture-mending business in which one goes round puncturing, the other mending

There are two distinct issues— one relates to unfairly blaming communities for the actions of a few individuals and the other relates to necessity or even desirability of hate speech laws

Feroze Nizami was a man of many parts — a writer, a classical vocalist and a versatile composer

It’s not like no one wants to work here, but the working types have already left, or will soon leave Pakistan, for work, or studies leading to work, in another country