Hindustan Times
In a stirring speech in Cairo last year, President Obama had said: “America is not and will never be at war with Islam.” Read more
(35 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged anti-Semitism, Cairo, Fulbright scholar, Haq, Islam, M.J. Prabhu, Muslim world, Muslims, President Obama, US
Before the first word of this essay is written, let a prophecy be made: Blinkered nationalists may accuse me of writing a puff piece on Pakistan, something far from the truth. Read more
(18 votes, average: 3.39 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged banana republic, Bulley Shah, Guru Nanak Dev, Hindustan Times, kangaroo courts, Keats, medieval values, Milton, neo-Islamist outfits, news, North Indian Muslims, Nusrat, Pakhawaj, Pakistan, Sadat Hasan Manto, Shelley, SM Qureishi, Taliban, Tufail Niazi, Waris Shah
At the crack of dawn today — the Fifteenth of August 2010 — India awoke to freedom’s frenzy. I woke up rather lazily to Independence-Day articles across newspapers, chronicling current Indian history. Read more
(9 votes, average: 2.89 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Filed under India · Tagged A.R. Rahman, Farah Pundit, father and daughter, GDP, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Hindustan Times, Hungry India, Independence-Day, Jai Ho, Mahtama Gandhi, Manas Chakravarty, Manishankar Aiyar, Oscar, photo-features, Rashad Hussain, Red Fort, Resul Pookutty, Sachin Tendulkar, Saina Nailwa, Shashi Tharoor, Tricolours, Vir Sanghvi
I never went to a B-school nor have I read Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents. But when I look around my life, I see that free-market capitalism has failed to keep me and many of us going. Read more
(12 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Filed under World · Tagged B-school, capitalism, fiscal indiscipline, food inflation, free market, Hindustan Times, Islam, OECD countries, Prophet Mohammed, Simon Kuznets, Socialism, Stiglitz, taxpayers
