Articles by Nadeem F. Paracha
A short video recently circulating on social media shows Adolf Hitler drinking from a can of Fanta while angrily proclaiming, “I hate juice.” Though millions mistook it...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not fall, but he clearly wears a shell-shocked expression these days, as widespread anti-Modi protests by the Cockroach Janta Party...
To a majority of people who do not support Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), its supporters and leaders appear largely irrational. This perception is driven by...
The 21st century’s cultural terrain has fostered an unusual sociological phenomenon: the over-analysis of an entire demographic. Whereas researchers have studied youth co...
European leadership is facing growing anxiety. The global solidarity with their framing of the Russia–Ukraine conflict continues to erode. Outside the West, international...
During a panel discussion at this year’s ThinkFest in Lahore, I declared that these days people engage with politics the way they do with a cola brand. After the discussi...
In May 2025, the Pakistani armed forces achieved a major victory against their traditional adversary, India. Following this milestone, the state and government orchestrated...
Samuel Huntington is making a comeback.
In his 1996 book The Clash of Civilisations, the American political scientist deeply divided academic opinion by arguing that cultu...
Illustration by Abro
The tiresome and perpetually ill-informed debate regarding the supposed superiority of Lahore over Karachi manifests with regularity across social media...
American President Donald Trump is often described by many as an ‘irrational’ man. Yet, there are those who claim he is instead an over-the-top practitioner of the ‘M...
