Tag: colonialism

Islamism as a postmodernist critique In Pakistani films of the 1960s, men returning from Western countries (after getting degrees from ...

Today, March 8, is Holi, the festival of colours, which marks the end of winter and the advent of spring ...

An English historian has made a trip to India in search of memories of Indian Army Prisoners of War in ...

As the world welcomes 2023, Pakistanis begin the new year with the same question in mind. It is neither a ...

When studying African literature, this quotation from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart sticks out in my mind: “When they came, ...

One of the most significant developments of 2021 was the agreement on Loss and Damage Funds at the COP27. The ...

Some inhabitants of the women’s refuge were rebellious teenagers, others claimed to be wives of the Taliban, but most had ...

I strongly believe that the milestone of 200 years of Urdu journalism did not get the extent of attention that ...

The Rise and Demise of Muslim Modernism The breakup of Pakistan in December 1971 produced a ‘New Pakistan.’ ZA. Bhutto, ...

The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman ...

Indians are presently celebrating, trumpeting, partying, and rejoicing. Rishi Sunak is the new Prime Minister of UK, and India beat ...

Nietzsche’s Hammer  Those who romanticise irrationality are convinced that rationality works best when driven by ‘evil’ intentions. To anti-rationalists, passion ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has been marked nearly universally as the passing away of a lady of immense ...

The Pakistani President, Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister, have all expressed their deepest condolences to Great Britain. Many Pakistanis share ...

One of the prime examples of history being moulded and misinterpreted in order to provide political justifications is the historiography ...

125 years ago in August 1897, the might of the British empire was challenged by the Pakhtun tribes around the ...

Colonialism has not ended. It has simply evolved: countries claiming other countries as their own, killing their rulers, waging imperialistic ...

The whole 19th century and the first half of the 20th century were characterised by the battle of ideas raging ...

I'll be the first to say it: my Urdu is not the best. It's a fact I'm not super proud ...

My Life and Times is an autobiography of legendary Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (1907-73), commonly known as ...

On the 12th of February 2022, I was at the Miani battlefield. This was the site of the British East ...

I wanted to write on the Miani battles, which were so pivotal in Sindh’s history. Going by a ‘first things ...

Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have ...

On the 25th of October 1956, 49-year-old Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai was produced in the district court of Lahore. He ...

Barbados has declared itself a republic, officially removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and replacing her with Dame ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...