Why has Tipu Sultan become a faux saint, while his father Hyder Ali has been virtually erased from the memory of Karnataka Muslims?

Macbeth is the drama of ambition rising from the ash of ethics. We live today in a different age from Macbeth and the king he betrayed and assassinated

One misconception foisted by moral science classes is that we learn best from the lives of the worthy. There is at least as much, if not more, to be learned from excess and depravity

The romance of regression in the time of the Islamic State

Why didn’t they fire poison darts at Nasser? The first book based on declassified British Intelligence is a romp through the secret chambers of the Cold War

Über-hotelier, debonair and dog lover, Habib Rehman in his own words is a mandatory read for managers and adventurers

What would Nehru have done if he were alive today, amidst the war between modernity and religiosity?

Cricket and Pakistan: When military dictators and politicians thought they could win the people through a surrogate triumph on a playing field

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…