Mubarak Ali Columns

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Past present: The first Muslims of India

Past present: The wall of separation

Past present: Independence for whom?

Past present: Alexander, the great?

Past present: Folly of the Kings

Past present: Hegemons and hypocrisy

Past present: True or false?

Past present: Tales of terror

Past present: Laying down the law

Past present: The law of resistance

Past present: Decline and fall

Past present: Classical conditioning

Past present: Guerilla intellect

Past present: Battling demons

Past present: All talk

Past present: A deadly consciousness

Past present: The margins of history

Past present: Don’t romanticise the Raj

Past present: The cost of progress

Past Present: Wanted: Agents of change

Past present: Knowledge at par

Past present: The rise of Russia

Past present: Acts of valour?

Past present: Gods of war

Past present: Behind enemy lines

Past present: Soldiers of fortune

Past present: Cultural carnage

Past present: The spoils of war

Past present: Gods of war

Past present: Fear cuts deeper than swords

Past present: ‘Just’ war

Past present: The triumph of intellect

Past present: In the realm of gold

Past present: Changing perspectives

Past present: Signs for those who observe

Past present: Heaven on earth

Past present: Captive hearts, captive minds

Past present: Building bridges

Past present: As the Romans do

Past present: Identity crises

Past present: The mass effect

Past Present: The politics of intellect

Past present: Historians and heritage

Past present: The other side of the story

Past present: Calling all intellectuals

Past present: Missing ingredients

Past present: End of feudalism

Past present: Cry freedom

Past present: Different strokes

Past present: When matters get verse

Past present: One nation under God

Past present: Conquest of paradise

Role reversal

Past present: Mind over matter

Past present: Can’t be choosers

Past present: The dishonoured dead

Past present: Deeply regret to inform you …

Past present: Bound and gagged

When democracy fails

The age of the sage

Guilt and redemption

The spirit of the small town

Past present: The new imperialism

Violent chapters

Red tape

Political violence

Past present: State of violence

Twist and shout

What Confucius taught us

Past present: Turncoats and traitors

Past present: In a material world

Past present: Exchanges of value

Past present: The culture of work

Work is worship

To protect, serve and sell out

Death and taxes

Past present: The high cost of hatred

Past present: Unholy wars

Past present: To each his own

Past present: Mum’s the word

Past present: Trial by ordeal

Past present: Pragmatic politics

Past present: Understanding Aurangzeb

Past present: Dead language

Past Present: Digging deep

Past Present: The lost art

Past Present: Dara’s makeover

Past present: The exodus of Sindhi Hindus

Past present: On good terms

Past present: Bow to the king

Past present: Refined argumentation

Power play

The decision to die

Past present: The urban sprawl

Past present: Housing heritage

Past present: Man-made landscape

Past present: Myths and lies

Past present: Sans history

Past present: Undelivered goods

Faith vs knowledge

Past present: Historical heritage

Past present: Imperial intent

Past present: Changing perspectives

Empires of food

Past present: We are all connected

Past present: The lost art of conversation

Past present: Patrons of art

Past present: Tyranny of majority

Divided by faith

Past present: Understanding the truth

Past present: Lies and half-truths

Past present: Just one side of the story

Past present: The grand old man

Past present: Voice of the common man

Pastpresent: History she wrote

Past present: Poet of the people

Past present: Images of reconstruction

Past present: Reconstructing the past

Past present: A historical travesty

Past present: Knowledge is power

Past present: The historiography of early Islam

Past present: In quest of the truth

Past present: Writing on history

Pastpresent: How research interests of Muslim historians changed over time

Past Present: Legends and myths

Past Present: Seeing history through the prism of religion

Why Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq are vilified in Pakistan’s political discourse