Partition, not parturition, is the act of splitting. Although, I’m sure, one can feel much like the other. Parturition, so I’ve heard, feels much like splitting into discombobulated halves. And ...

C.M. Naim is primarily known to us as a scholar of Urdu literature. He has to his credit a number of works written during his stay in the US where he taught at the department of South Asian Languages ...

My last column, arguing that an undivided India might have become Lebanon writ large, attracted a fair amount of comment, both complimentary and critical. This was not unexpected, for Partition ...