Impunity And Injustice Still Hang Over The 2002 Gujarat Violence
In February of 2002, Gujarat, a state in western India, witnessed one of the deadliest instances of communal violence in ...
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Dara Shikoh’s World Of Islam Imagined
During the Fall 2022 semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course titled “The World of Islam,” taught by ...
Monument To Love On The India-Pakistan Border: Pul Kanjri Was Built By Ranjit Singh
In the long moments that divided a country into two, lives, dreams, families and parchments of history seemed to have ...
Plato’s Atlantis, Valmiki’s Ramayana And Modi’s Hindutva Today
The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman ...
Of Pandemic Monologues And Other Griefs
The year 2020 began with new hope, for every New Year is meant for more new resolutions. But the sooner ...
Empathising With Partition Victims: Mercy Deaths Are Not The Same As Honour Killings
Thoha Khalsa would have been another nondescript albeit picturesque and peaceful village, if not for a blood-curdling event in 1947. ...
Revisiting Taxila Station, From Where The Partition Bloodbath May Have Started
For dwellers of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi seeking respite from scorching heat, the road adjoining the GT ...
One Step Towards A People’s History Of Pakistan
Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...
Why Do Hindu Nationalists Want To Be Like Hardline Islamists?
There is an online trend amongst Indians who want to boycott Aamir Khan’s upcoming movie, where he plays the role ...
A Tale Of Two Massacres – II
The first part of this article described the massacre of Muslims in August 1947 in Rupnagar, East Punjab. In this ...
Holier Than Thou: BJP-Ruled States Consider Whether The Value Of A Cow’s Life Exceeds That Of Humans
While in Pakistan a mere suspicion of blasphemy invites vigilante violence, in India the vigilante lynching is reserved for those ...
A Tale Of Two Massacres – I
One pleasant reward of writing for an online magazine like the one you are reading right now is the wide ...
Children Of Gowalmandi – II
The story told here is without consideration of politics, bitterness or religious allegiances connected to the events that led to ...
Prime Minister Modi Raises Communal Tempers Ahead Of Polls
Last month when violence erupted in Bangladesh, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ram Madhav gave sermons to Prime ...
While Bollywood Toes The Hindu Nationalist Line, South Indian Cinema Takes Up The Real Issues
India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social ...
Foucault’s Political Spirituality, Punjab And TLP
Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to ...
Traditional Social Institutions of Tangir: Some Ethnographic Notes
I recall my first visit to the Tangir valley in the Diamer district in 2000. Before Tangir, I had visited ...
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The Battle For Objectivity: The Need for Fair Representation of Bangladesh in Pakistani Universities
The separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971...
Quetta To face Peshawar In PSL Exhibition Match Today
Quetta Gladiators will face Peshawar Zalmi in the...