Dr Abdus Salam: one man seven lives — II

Daily Times: By Syeda Sultana Rizvi: For Dr Salam, religion did not occupy a separate compartment of his life; it was inseparable from his work and family life Initially, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) focused only on Theoretical Physics but after a decade, a wider range was included […]

Bollywood North in British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Globe and Mail, Feb 2, 2013 Bhangra dancers and Bollywood celebrities, a blur of sequins and eye-popping golden costumes, crowded the stage at a Vancouver media conference this week, facing a convention-centre ballroom packed with South Asian community leaders along with politicians and their handlers, eager […]

To the barricades, again

Source: The Economist.   WITH angry crowds across the nation baying against him, Egypt’s president wagged his finger at the people in a late-night televised speech. He declared a curfew for some cities, he called for support for the police, he deployed the army to the streets. Seemingly as an […]