Confluence November 2017 issue Editorially Speaking. The question of strong and moral leadership Yet another year is almost in its way out! Despite the usual constraints I am very pleased to bring this issue of the magazine to you. This year will be remembered for many things. In this issue, some writers have highlighted the…
Reported by Prabhakar Kaza Has the ICC Women’s World Cup Finals at Lord’s in July 2017, changed the landscape of Indian Women’s Cricket is the question in the minds of several people in India and UK. To find answers, the Indian Forum on British Media held an event on auspicious day of Diwali, in a…
By Maya Malhotra Please run, don’t walk to the next total solar eclipse. Across mainland US, enter the 8th of April, Anno Domini 2024 in your smartphone calendars, book rooms early, and pray to the celestials that it doesn’t rain or that you expire beforehand. (After that, since you’ll experience nothing as fabulous again, it’s…
By Reginald Massey The death of Dina Wadia on November 2 at the age of 98 closes an era so far as Pakistan is concerned. She was the only child of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan, and the ravishingly attractive Rattanbai ‘Ruttie’ Petit the only child of the Parsi industrialist and philanthropist Sir…