June 2020 Issue

Wuhan spirit breaks down: Will India learn that it cannot have...

In Jonathan Swift's 1738 farce "Polite Conversation," the character Lady Answerall says, "she cannot eat her cake and have her cake". A modern-sounding variant...

Pakistan Steel Mills: Sisyphean story of mismanagement, corruption & court interventions

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus – king of Ephyra – was punished by God Zeus to carry a massive boulder up a hill only to...