by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 30, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeA father (with accomplices)beats his daughter to death right in front of the courthouse in Pakistan’s most sophisticated, most cultured, most refined city—and the police behave as if they’re watching TV! That this could happen in Lahore reveals...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 23, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWhat on earth was Barack Obama thinking of when his people were negotiating terms for meetings with the Taliban in Doha? Talk about tossing out the baby with the bath water! There were only two good reasons for the U.S. to invade Afghanistan,...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 14, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Delhi was still the smallish, palimpsest city the British handed over to independent India when I first lived here. I fell in love with the whole of it: the convoluted lanes of old Delhi; the impressive remnants of earlier civilizations; the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 2, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Kathryn Wasserman Davis died at 106 on April 23, 2013. No cause for her demise was reported although it was reported that she was a strong supporter of environmental causes. Kathryn Davis came from a line of women’s rights activists and...
