When Netaji Fled To Peshawar And Beyond: Some Memories Of Subhas Chandra Bose
It was around 1939-40. Subhas was the head of Congress Party, but a serious conflict arose and a new group ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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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 Abul Kalam Azad And Hussain Ahmad Madani Were Not Convinced About Pakistan
North India’s Persian- and Urdu-speaking aristocracy and literati, known as the Ashraafia or noble-born of putative foreign ancestors, was overly ...
The Narrative Of The Pakistan Movement – In Bullet Points
In 1995, I appeared for the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education(FBISE) exams for overseas Pakistani students in the ...
Resolution To Pronounce India ‘Country Of Particular Concern’ Submitted To US House Of Representative
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has submitted a resolution to the House of Representatives seeking the denomination of India as a ...
Partition Stories: An Amritsar Tragedy
This is a sad tale. A tale of an unfortunate woman. A tale to reaffirm that life is not fair; ...
How A Well-Oiled Social Media Machine Gives The BJP An Edge In Electioneering
The electoral victory of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 also announced ...
Prosperous Rebels: The Curious Romance Between Lifestyle Liberals And Right-Wing Populists in South Asia
At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after ...
When South Asian Muslims Fled To Find Refuge In Afghanistan
Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have ...
US Democracy Brought To The Brink
It seemed like a scene from Paris of 1789, when an angry, unruly mob stormed the Bastille prison and freed ...
Back To The Future: A Five-Cornered Election Contest Reminds Punjab Of The 1980s In India
On Valentine’s Day this year, when lovers all over the world will exchange affection and greetings, voters in the Indian ...
Parity Not Partition: The Vision That Drove Mr. Jinnah’s Politics
I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a ...
The Muslim Woman At Hillary Clinton’s Side: Reading Huma Abedin’s Biography
Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hilary Clinton, relates the story, in her newly published memoir (Both/And; published by Simon ...
An Ill-Fated Merger: The Pitfalls Of Sacralising The Secular In India And Pakistan
Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...
US House Democrats Back Anti-Islamophobia Bill After Republican Congresswoman’s Slurs Against Ilhan Omar
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favour of a proposal by Democrats for the U.S. State Department office ...
Maududi’s Leviathan: From A Political Ambition To A Cultural Pursuit
The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse ...
In India, Congress Wakes Up To Put House In Order
Since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed office in New Delhi in 2014, its juggernaut has mauled and ...
Examining The RSS Chief’s New Stance On Hindu-Muslim Communal Relations
The history of Hindu-Muslim animosity is quite old now: and at the very least, it can be traced from the ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Court Discharges Journalist Ayaz Amir From Sarah Murder Case
An Islamabad court on Tuesday discharged veteran journalist...
Audio Leaks Intertwined With COAS Appointment, Journalist Kamran Yousaf Says
Journalist Kamran Yousaf said on Tuesday that the...