Cultural Icons That The South Asian Subcontinent Lost In 2022
Arguably the greatest loss to filmi music in 2022 was Lata Mangeshkar’s demise. She was the voice of the universe. ...
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Tag: ahmad
How Dr. Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) Inspired A Generation Of Activists
Many people who had contributed to the arts, politics and culture of South Asian have passed away this year. Among ...
Who Is A Journalist?
When the two media giants Ahmad Noorani and Haroon Rashid stated that Najam Sethi is not a journalist, I had ...
Reflections On A Journey Through Pakistan’s Northern Areas
This is the seventh and last part of my travelogue to Naran, Gilgit and Naltar valleys. It consists of impressions ...
How Dalrymple Dives Into The Anarchy After Aurangzeb – I
The events which followed the death of the sixth great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, are well known. Every high ...
Of Mind, Body, Sanity And Love: Iffat Navaid’s Autobiography
Sylvia Plath questioned and wrote the most beautiful poetry, writer Iffat Navaid wrote her biography marveling on her husband's body-mind ...
Rethinking Parenting
In the post-Covid world, raising kids and parenting them has been the most difficult and exhausting task, especially when the ...
Rethinking Resistance In The Age Of Capitalist Realism
Radical politics, traversing the various strands of Anarchism and Communism with somewhat loathsome practical incarnations, always offered inextricable resistance to ...
Interpreting Faiz: A Distant Lover’s Memory or the Longing for a Utopian State?
Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...
Islamic Rationalism: A Dichotomous History Of Liberation And Authoritarianism
Freeing Theology In the 19th century, when the idea of ‘Islamic modernism’ first emerged to address the challenges posed by ...
The Antinomies of Aijaz Ahmad (1941 – 2022): From Ghalib to Gramsci
I heard about Aijaz Ahmad – who passed away at 81 earlier last month in the United States on March ...
Ethnic Conflict In Afghanistan Adds Fuel To The Fire In The Region
The ethnic diversity and the peaceful coexistence of different communities is said to be a defining feature of the modern ...
Theology In Service Of Secularism: The Case Of John Locke And Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...
Dreaming Of Madinah: Imran In Wonderland
On a beaten track On January 17, an article written by PM Imran Khan appeared in some English and Urdu ...
‘In the City, The Mullah Roams Fearlessly’
Translator’s Introduction: September 30 earlier this week was International Translation Day while this week is also being celebrated as Banned ...
Remembering An 1857 Folk Hero From Punjab: Rai Ahmad Kharal And The History Society Lahore
Believe it or not, there is a society in Lahore which is doing a very important and basic work in ...
Fighting Spreads In Northern Afghanistan As Taliban Claim Panjshir Under Siege
Fighting in northern Afghanistan has intensified as an uprising against the Taliban takeover of the country is spreading from Panjshir. ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Imran Khan’s Ego & Incompetence Practically Bulldozed Economy
One cannot deny the fact that Pakistan is...
Shots Fired At Ahmadi Worship Place In Mirpur Khas
Unidentified armed men attacked the Ahmadi worship place...