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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within. Close.

M.J. Akbar

India

Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. more »

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September 15, 2006 9:00 AM

Engage Afghanistan for Its Own Sake

New Delhi, India - Karzai's sincere effort to be something more than the mayor of Kabul has been a quiet joke ever since he took office. The President of Afghanistan invites sympathy rather than censure. He did not become president because he had either a mass base or an army. He was placed in office by Bush who then forgot to add in the power.

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September 19, 2006 8:00 AM

Name the Persian Interlocutor

New Delhi, India - An intriguing part of the conversation between the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and "an educated Persian" now made world-famous by Pope Benedict XVI, is that the Persian seems to have no name. There is no mention of it in the speech made by the Holy Father during his "Apostolic Journey" to the University of Regensburg on 9/12.

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September 25, 2006 1:00 PM

India's Unity Depends on Free Speech

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