Is this what women want?
Women. Must be sick of seeing other women. Men should be heartily sick of the sight of them too. You can switch TV channels until your thumb develops meta-carpal syndrome, but you can’t avoid the company of women. It’s got so, that when seven wise men suited and seated in a circle, appeared on Star News’ assembly election coverage, you were almost — mind you, only almost — overjoyed. Didn’t matter what they looked like: tall, short, bearded, balding, bespectacled — at least they wore after shave. Once this exclusive, male bastion is stormed, there’s really only Amitabh Bachchan and the Indian (men’s) cricket team left standing.

Taliban and the colour yellow
Khorasan' of the Middle Ages and ‘Aryana’ in the antiquity’, Afghanistan has seen them all pass by. The Aryans who left their Vedic and Avesta songs behind for posterity, Zoaraster the philosopher from Balkh who preached his religion a thousand years before Christ and Alexander the Greek have at some time or the other all left their footprints in this land of the hospitable Afghan people. Kanishka, Babar and the Buddhists have in earlier times lived here peacefully and never permitted a majority to rub out a minority to extinction.