by Yavar Abbas | Jun 8, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
An Indian Muslim as President, a Pakistani Sikh as Prime Minister, an Italian Catholic as leader of the ruling party, and a Pakistani Brahmin as Leader of the Opposition!!!! What more could a secular heart desire? This is the exciting, multi-colour, rainbow India that...
by Yavar Abbas | Apr 21, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
That’s how it has been with me in the last six weeks. I started commuting between the continents on 26th. February and have been on the go, non-stop, until early last week. My itinerary reads: London—Philadelphia–New York—Philadelphia—Edison, New...
by Yavar Abbas | Mar 6, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
(With respectful acknowledgement to Alistair Cooke who made this phrase his virtual copyright with his illuminating weekly broadcasts on the BBC World Service for the last 58 years, retiring finally on doctor’s orders at the age of ninety-one, having recorded...
by Yavar Abbas | Feb 13, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
I have a retraction to make and I better do it right away. Last month in my article about J.P. Dutta’s L.O.C./Kargil, I included his film BORDER in my tirade. I got it mixed up with Anil Sharma’s GHADAR. I apologise unreservedly for the faux pas. Needless...
by Yavar Abbas | Jan 7, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
L.O.C/ Kargil I have just been to see the film L.O.C./Kargil, directed by J.P. Dutta. It is about the exploits of the Indian Army in retaking the heights of Kargil in the Himalayas, treacherously occupied by “the enemy”. I will have more to say about the...
by Yavar Abbas | Aug 22, 1997 | Other Writings, Writings
One of the many good things that Allahabad, the city of Jawaharlal Nehru, gave me when I was an undergraduate there in the late 30s and early 40s, was the chance to get to know Raghupati Sahai Firaq, the famed Urdu poet who had become a legend in his lifetime, and who...
