Khalid Saleem

WHAT with the pandemics of all kinds having got the world by the throat, the season of elections is upon us. Pick up the daily…

IT is heart-warming that in a world, in which human values – what to talk of human life – have lost all sanctity; there exist…

THE proverbial man-in-the-street is learning to scrape through the hard way. Whether or not he comes through unscathed or even survives the exercise is the…

MOST tales one comes across these days are fishy. Some, to be sure, are more fishy than others, but fishy nevertheless. One was looking through…

SOME capitals are distinguished by their history others by geography; still others by their veritable grandeur. For an observer, it would require considerable stretch of…

NOT so very long ago, the Harry Potter mania ad become something of a phenomenon. Hats off to Ms. Rowling for the way she veered…

WHAT does one do when faced with the classical question: which came first: the chicken or the egg? This is the classical conundrum that has…

I hasten to laugh at everything for the fear of being obliged to weep. One does not claim authorship of these words; since they were…

One visible by-product of the late developments on the political front (the upheaval et al) is that the lovers of ‘democracy’ are all floundering around…

RECENT and not so recent events in the Middle East and our region are so confusing that it leaves one in a daze. It is…