World

The Chance Revolutionary

Suhit Kelkar

The Egyptian Revolution through the eyes of a 22-year-old who suddenly found herself part of an uprising that toppled a 30-year-old dictatorship

Of Love and Loss

Aimee Ginsburg

The extraordinary story of a Palestinian doctor from Gaza and his search for meaning in life. For his is a life few of us would be able to bear

The Ludicrousness of ‘Taking Back Yoga’

Meera Nanda

Meera Nanda’s original essay on the origins of modern-day yoga have provoked some fairly extreme reaction. Here she joins issue with the HAF’s Swaminathan Venkataraman, and says “facts are stubborn things and have to be respected.”

The Audacity of Ignorance

Swaminathan Venkataraman

The HAF counters Meera Nanda’s “not-so-old, nor-so-Hindu” argument about modern-day yoga

Till Speech Is Free

Mosharraf Zaidi

Pakistan is not about to erupt like Egypt. Fundamentally because Pakistanis have never been gagged

Tenderbox Not Tinderbox

Mani Shankar Aiyar

For all its contemporary woes and tortured history recounted in MJ Akbar’s new book, Pakistan is not about to fall apart

The Greatest Virus Ever Written

Adam Matthews

Stuxnet, the rogue programme that scuttled Iran’s nuclear plans

The ‘Regime’ Egyptians Really Want

arindam

A Pew Research survey in mid-2010 examined Egyptian Muslims’ views on politics and the role Islam should play in it. The findings are revealing.

Muslim in America: The New Stigma

David Lepeska

With Congressional hearings on radicalisation looming, Islamophobia is on the rise in the US

The Invisible Bird

arindam

China’s earlier-than-expected test flight of the fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter has caught the world defence establishment napping. Bravado aside