The New Silk Roads

“Entertaining. . . . Peter Frankopan has a sharp eye for startling facts, and no reader will leave The New Silk Roads with her sense of the state of the world unchanged” —Richard Drayton,Times...

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In the line of fire

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Blood Over Different Shades of Green

The history of Bangladesh revisited.

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New Kings of the World

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America’s cultural dominance around the world.

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Partition Voices

Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. Yet their memory of India's partition has been shrouded in silence. Kavita...

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Khullam Khulla

Only, Rishi Kapoor was and is so much more. Few actors in Hindi cinema have had this sort of a career arc: from the gawky adolescent pining for his schoolteacher (Mera Naam Joker, 1970) to the naughty...

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Islamic Verdicts ( on the Pillars of Islam)

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Amazing Muslms who Changed the World

Do you think you know who first thought of the theory of evolution? Have you ever wondered who created the oldest university in the world? Is Joan of Arc is the only rebel girl who led an army that...

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Fearless Stories of Amazing Women from Pakistan

Pakistan is home to countless untold stories of adventurous and trail-blazing women who challenged the world around them with only a dream. Tales that have silently been playing out for years, tugging...

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The Upstairs Wife

For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been...

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Saladin- The Life, The Legend And The Islamic Empire

Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A...

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