Tag: Insight

Faiza Farid on the binaries of “good” and “bad” women that drive Pakistan's official narrative

Hurmat Ali Shah explains how traditional nationalist consciousness excludes women from Pashtun demands for social justice

Hurmat Ali Shah explains how traditional nationalist consciousness excludes women from Pashtun demands for social justice

Muhammad Tahir Iqbal on the central role played by markers of faith and identity in a divided India

Hurmat Ali Shah explains Bacha Khan’s relationship with our past – and what it means for us today

Ammar Ali Qureshi provides an overview of the political choices facing elected governments in choosing Chief Ministers for the country’s ...

Hurmat Ali Shah on how an anonymous Pashtun woman is using humour to call into question an order defined by ...

Aziz Ali Dad explains where it may have all gone wrong

Aziz Ali Dad thinks about the flux and fixity of ideas over the past two millenia

Salman Tarik Kureshi looks back at the birth of the Presidential system and unpacks the current debate in Pakistan

Hurmat Ali Shah explains how Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s worldview provided a route to progress – in the 1930s and in ...

Hurmat Ali Shah explains how Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s worldview provided a route to progress – in the 1930s and in ...

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the continued relevance in today’s Pakistan of the Diarchy system introduced by the British Raj

Quite a lot, according to Fathima Sheikh

Salman Tarik Kureshi offers a bird's-eye view of elections, choices and engineering

Hurmat Ali Shah emphasises how free access for women to public spaces will also end up breaking down class barriers

Raza Naeem describes Marx's domestic life at at his most prolific time - writing on world affairs, especially those of ...

Umar Riaz traces the rise of violence in a peaceful Sufi tradition to the Muslim ulema's resistance to British colonialism

Garga Chatterjee feels that the imposition of Hindi is central to the cultural and linguistic policies of the BJP government

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the origin and historical role of the modern intelligentsia

Salman Tarik Kureshi reflects on what it means when a state no longer has a monopoly on the use of ...

Salman Tarik Kureshi looks back at the roots of religious intolerance in Pakistani society

Dr. Jeanne Zaino feels the new film ignores the unsavoury side of Britain's tenacious wartime leader, arch-conservative and colonial enthusiast

This year's Republic Day parade in New Delhi excluded the tableau representing West Bengal and its culture. Garga Chatterjee explains ...

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the deceptively dangerous allure of unelected strongmen

Salman Tarik Kureshi examines our experience with democracy and oligarchs since 1947