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Stains of Blood on our History

So, relentless was the end of love, so heartless— After the nights of tenderness, the dawns were pitiless, so pitiless (From Faiz’s Dhaka say Wapsi par;translation by Agha Shahid Ali) History of nations, big or small, is stained with…

Greatness Lies in Sacrifice

Recent wave of protests have shown that a large segment of society which was previously aloof to politics has woken up. The middle class, which was largely seen as a sleeping majority has not only broken its silence but is also asserting…