Khalid Saleem

ONE can hardly resist the temptation of alluding to the age-old art of treading on toes in this epoch when everything on this blessed planet…

AMIDST the scare created by the Pandemic, there are two other buzzwords that continue to cadge the headlines. These are ‘corruption’ and ‘accountability’. Open any…

A news item some years ago disclosed that our public representatives had expressed serious misgivings about the service provided by the ‘national’ airline, and requested…

WITH life virtually at a stand-still due to the pandemic, the best one can hope to do is ramble, in more senses than one. As…

The Corona-virus Pandemic has resulted in one positive development. It has obliged mankind to pause and reflect. In effect, it is long that man had…

COMING upon one of those billboards that blight the skyline of the Capital of this blessed land, one learnt to one’s horror that a certain…

WHAT is one supposed to do if faced with a real, live reptile? Not any run-of-the-mill reptile, mind you, but a fat, slimy, revolting creature…

ONE was afraid that someday it would come to this. The way things move in the Land of the Pure, what else does the common…

ONE visible by-product of the current developments on the political front in this blessed land is that the ‘lovers of democracy’ are all floundering around…

DOLLARS have always had an uncanny fascination for the residents of the Land of the Pure. Maybe it is because of our tendency to slavishly…