Night falls, a tattered veil falling limply across the wounded body of this nation. I cannot sleep — much as I try...
Updated 23 Feb, 2014 06:35pm
I walked blindly into the narrow passageway carved between the crumbling wall of an abandoned latrine and the ...
Updated 09 Feb, 2014 02:33pm
There is something undeniable which happens when seasons change: a palpable shift in the quality of the light...
Updated 26 Jan, 2014 03:06pm
From the sky the island state of Sri Lanka is a tear-drop in the ocean, its several nations breathing softly besides...
Updated 12 Jan, 2014 03:51pm
It is late. My flight has landed on time despite the mist obscuring the vision on this widowed evening. By the time ...
Updated 29 Dec, 2013 11:19am
In the evening the sky over Cape Town veils itself in vermilion, rust and ochre as the sun sinks into its bed beyond...
Updated 15 Dec, 2013 01:41pm
The drive from the hotel to the studio in Korangi is an uneventful one. We have waited for the Friday protests to...
Updated 01 Dec, 2013 05:50pm
It is raining this evening, dusk subsumed by dark clouds that shelter me from the sun. I have left the conference...
Updated 17 Nov, 2013 09:01am
Fifty years ago, on November 10, 1963, a team of dedicated scholars and government officials from Pakistan and Italy...
Published 10 Nov, 2013 07:59am
Seventeen years ago I had sat in the little make-shift studio crammed into a corner of the servant’s quarters at...
Updated 04 Nov, 2013 01:34pm
This past week I have seen the world from a subterranean space, where a number of diligent young men spend the ...
Updated 22 Oct, 2013 02:20pm
The wind whips up the fine dust of this wasteland, obscuring my vision as I try hard to keep the vehicle on a path...
Published 06 Oct, 2013 07:59am