Tag: F.S. Aijazuddin
Armchair grief – F.S. Aijazuddin
COVID-19 and politics have made grief an armchair activity. One quarantines us from the present, the other isolates us from the past.
Recently the death...
All common men – F.S. Aijazuddin
A HUMAN BEING may lose weight on a treadmill; striding in the same spot on a political treadmill, a prime minister risks losing credibility.
The...
Success backstage – F.S. Aijazuddin
NARENDRA Modi will never read Backstage — the recently released memoirs of Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Its very sub-title will deter him: The story behind...
Two budgerigars F.S. Aijazuddin
SOME marriages are made in heaven, others at the World Bank. Isher Judge and Montek Singh Ahluwalia met in 1970 when she (a brilliant...
Handshakes, RIP- F.S. Aijazuddin
COVID-19 is responsible for the death of the handshake. A human gesture of social connection has become the harbinger of disease. Just as...
The fourth R – F.S. Aijazuddin
PAKISTANIS have an imperfect knowledge of the four Rs — Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmetic, and Russia. To master the first three requires education. To...
G-20, or G-2? – F.S. Aijazuddin
GLOBAL politics is being diminished gradually to a numbers game, reducing slowly from G-20 to G-7 until it reaches the power of G-2: United...
A slow death – F.S. Aijazuddin
THE US is dying slowly, poisoned by its own hubris. No nation in recent history achieved the pre-eminence the US enjoyed throughout the...
Price of loyalty – F.S. Aijazuddin
LOYALTY is not given; it is bought. And never more so than in politics, whether domestic or international.
An honest politician was once defined as...
Revolving lives – F.S. Aijazuddin
WHO was the first sentient being to ask the question: ‘Is there an after-life?’ It has taken humans countless millennia to formulate their own...