by Yavar Abbas | Mar 31, 2006 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
It is more than six weeks that I saw it but I am still haunted by the images in Lalit Mohan Joshi’s debut documentary BEYOND PARTITION, premiered at London’s Nehru Centre on 22nd February. The images have been put together in such an effective manner that...
by Yavar Abbas | Dec 8, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
Freedom of expression is one of the essential freedoms in a civilized society. For a writer, however, it is more than essential. It is his oxygen. Without it he will choke to death as a writer. I have had personal experience of that choking feeling lately. My friends,...
by Yavar Abbas | Oct 26, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
In the middle of such momentous events when the future conduct of the most powerful country in the world is the issue in the most bitterly fought Presidential Election that one can remember, and a grisly attempt is being made to decide the future of a proud people by...
by Yavar Abbas | Sep 18, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
Highjacking has been the defining pastime of many of the politicians in the twentieth century and is being carried forward into the twenty-first. In my own lifetime there have been four memorable highjackings: The Great Indian Highjack of India’s Unity The...
by Yavar Abbas | Aug 15, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
It is India’s 58th “Independence” Day. But I am not celebrating. I have decided to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s example. He did not celebrate. On the contrary he was in virtual mourning at the partition of his beloved India. “Over my dead...
by Yavar Abbas | Jul 15, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
“Kill a snail and go to jail” screams a headline on the front page of The Times of last weekend. The story is accompanied by a prominent picture (6½”x6½”) of the snail complete with the creature’s characteristic antennae raised in the...
