Posts Tagged ‘India’
To Geetan’s Gethia
Once you have been to Two Chimneys, the otherworldly boutique hotel, designed and run by Geetan Batra, and set in Gethia, a hill station in India’s Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, it will live in your heart forever. Ever since we had first met, my friend Geetan and I had talked about the prospect of visiting Gethia […]
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Tags: Geetan Batra, Gethia, Himalayas, India, India travel, Nainital, Nainital resorts, Tarun Tejpal, The Alchemy of Desire, travelogue, Two Chimneys, Two Chimneys Gethia
The Gallis of Dilli
I think I have always had the desire, the longing to visit Delhi. It was like being born with a nostalgia for a place I had never seen, and I know that you can only have nostalgia for what you have seen and lost. Having migrated to Karachi from Delhi at the time of the […]
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Tags: Connaught Place, Delhi, India, Pakistan, Pakistan-India relations, Partition
Army of Frankensteins
At least 40 people were killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi yesterday. Maybe because the attack targeted Muslim worshippers gathered for what is in the Islamic cultural of the subcontinent the week’s most important namaz many reacted by declaring that this CANNOT have been done by Pakistanis. For whatever reason, it is increasingly the […]
Filed under: Politics, Swat Offensive, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan Offensive | 42 Comments
Tags: 9/11, fidayeen, India, Israel, Pakistan army, Pakistan mosque blast, Rawalpindi attack, Rawalpindi blast, suicide attack, Taliban, US
Deny Everything
When I got in to work at 6 am yesterday morning, our overnight anchorperson complained that it was a slow news day. “Nothing’s going on. We’ve been running the same headlines all night; just changing the order around,” he yawned. I immediately responded by saying that he shouldn’t get used to it, as it was […]
Filed under: Politics, Satire, Terrorism, Uncategorized, Waziristan Offensive | 21 Comments
Tags: Blackwater, Gilani, India, Kayani, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Peshawar blast, Taliban, Terrorism, US, Zardari
Pakistanis are very uncomfortable with the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s visit to India. The same pictures have run repeatedly on all the television channels. Mrs Clinton is animated and lively, her head thrown back in laughter as she announces the latest agreement with India with Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna by her […]
Filed under: Politics, Socio-Economic | 1 Comment
Tags: Hillary Clinton, India, Pakistan, US
