Valentine’s Day: A personal history of how a celebration of love became the target of hate in India

The nation’s women are never reassured that, for all its thorns, life can also bring roses.

Annie Zaidi

· Feb 14, 2021 · 07:30 am

‘Maoist plot’ in Mumbai: 12 identical witness statements put police claims under doubt

Five workers, who barely earned enough to support their families, have been arrested on charges of funding the Maoists.

Mridula Chari

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Shone Satheesh

· Dec 19, 2018 · 09:00 am

As a Goan boy growing up in Kenya in the 1950s, I saw football change and history being made

While the writer battled adolescence and longed for the most beautiful girl in the world, history was being reshaped at World Cups.

Hartman de Souza

· Jun 21, 2018 · 11:30 am

The Frenchwoman who fell in love with Lucknow and launched many jihads in her lifetime

After taking the side of East Pakistan in 1971, Mariam Abou Zahab became an active sympathiser of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Laurent Gayer

· Jan 07, 2018 · 11:30 am

From Veena Malik to Qandeel Baloch: Why are some women in Pakistan branded as ‘bold’?

Men use the idea of honour to keep women in control in every field of life, showbiz included.

Faiza Shah

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Fatima Niazi

· Nov 26, 2017 · 11:30 am

A brief history of Pakistani art and the people who shaped it

Contemporary Pakistani art has many strengths, but also a few failings.

Iftikhar Dadi

· Sep 14, 2017 · 03:30 pm

To keep rich Arab nations happy, Pakistan is letting them kill houbara bustards for sport

The bird could be in danger, but the government doesn’t accept this.

Subuk Hasnain

· Jul 14, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Seventy years on, a fraught question still troubles Pakistan: Should Urdu be its official language?

Since the adoption of the Constitution about 44 years ago, the process of Urdu’s implementation is still far from complete.

Ali Raj

· May 27, 2017 · 11:30 am

When the world realised that treating HIV was essential for global security

Governments around the world started acting on HIV/AIDS when they realised it not just as a health issue but as security one too.

Alexandra Ossola, Mosaic

· May 21, 2017 · 02:30 pm

‘Why did you let him shoot that?’: An Indian woman’s story of ‘revenge porn’

Aradhana’s case is what is commonly labelled ‘revenge porn’, a misnomer for non-consensual distribution of sexual imagery or videos.

Neha Dixit

· Feb 12, 2017 · 11:30 am

‘I just want to know how my sons died’: Bringing home Bosnia’s dead

Ed Vulliamy meets the scientists piecing together the evidence from mass graves, and the relatives hoping for justice – and a body to bury.

Ed Vulliamy

· Jan 02, 2017 · 09:30 pm

In a race against time, an engineer found a fix to his faulty heart

Doctors had far from ideal surgical solutions to Tal Golesworthy's bursting aorta.

Geoff Watts, mosaic.com

· Nov 13, 2016 · 02:30 pm