Prof. Shah Alam Khan Farooque was a Kashmiri. He hated India. His cousin was killed by security forces while at a demonstration in Srinagar. This was 1990. We were classmates; I always took him head on for his anti-India rhetoric. Those were the times when no one minded his orotundityContinue Reading

Generosity has gotten itself a bad name. Introduced to most of us in preachy, didactic Moral Science textbooks with terribly sanctimonious illustrations, being generous was often viewed as a faraway, overtly pious ideal that no youngster would like to be caught aspiring to – lest he be mocked at forContinue Reading