Visa bans, detained players, deadly heat, and a president fixing a red card for the home team. The press spent 2022 condemning Qatar for less. In 2022 you could not open a sports page without

The playbook is consistent. Attack the reviewer. Dismiss the institution. Mobilise the mob. Repeat. When @TheEconomist published its review of Dhurandhar: The Revenge this week, it did not mince language. Critics, the magazine noted, gave

A country the world has never quite understood is doing what the world’s institutions could not. Here is what the world has been missing. On Wednesday evening, the State Department took the White House podium

In the press freedom literature, the two most documented cases of organised digital violence against women journalists in South Asia carry the names Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) and Gharidah Farooqi (@GFarooqi). The Coalition for Women in

How a doctor whose roots run from Sahiwal to Rochdale became one of English football’s most trusted hands, and finally a champion. Last week, on the team coach back from Selhurst Park, Zafar Iqbal posted