Khalid Saleem

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

ACCOUNTABILITY of varied shades has been in the news of late. Senior bureaucrats have been known to wriggle out of tight situations with their well-known…

FROM the ‘gentlemen’s game of cricket’ to the turbulent field of foreign affairs, our teams are often found wanting. It may be time to wonder…

In the world of today, where everything has been turned on its head because of the Corona Virus pan-demic, why should one talk of cars…

When the, then, President took the momentous decision to opt for a brand new Capital, the news did generate a mur-mur of sorts; though -…

WITH all the problems facing the Muslim World, the OIC appears to be lost in slumber. Not only has it hardly taken notice of the…

ONE wonders if the gentle reader has come across the most apt definition of the ‘supermarket’. A supermarket, this definition goes, is the place you…

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 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…