Monthly:November 2022

The Incident of the Shaving of the Moustache that Changed the Political Face of Pakistan and Benazir’s Destiny 16 November 2022 The Incident of the Shaving of the Moustache that Changed the Political Face of Pakistan and Benazir’s Destiny Picture a very Shakespearean drama and then place the Bhutto family as its main players. It surpasses all expectations of a volatile story full of greed, power hungry and manipulative individuals. Benazir Bhutto’s brother, Murtaza Bhutto’s assassination comes to mind. A […]

Romila Thapar – A History of India and the Absence of Satan 8 November 2022 Romila Thapar – A History of India and the Absence of Satan Romila Thapar’s ‘A history of India Volume 1’ is worth every re-visit. I had the good fortune of coming across is some years ago, prior to that, I had very little knowledge of the historical make-up of the modern India, although her work stops at the arrivals of the Europeans in the sixteenth […]