Carter: More Humanitarian Than President
He is 98 years old and has voluntarily forgone all medical treatment and returned home to spend his last days ...
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Tag: revolution
The Greatest Revolutionary Poem
This ghazal, by the Urdu poet Majrooh Sulanpuri, is perhaps the greatest revolutionary poem ever written anywhere in the world. ...
Shervin Hajipour’s Iconic “Baraye” Wins First EVER Grammy for ‘Song for Social Change’
Released on September 28, 2022, in the wake of Zhina #MahsaAmini’s murder and the start of #IranProtest, 25-year-old Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour’s ...
‘A Mercy Unto Mankind’ – A Dedication To The Prophet (PBUH) From East To West
When the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him) returned to Makkah at the head of a large victorious ...
In Praise Of A Pioneer: ‘Oriental’ William Jones – I
Some argumentative readers may question the topic of this article. Frankly speaking, Sir William Jones was not my first choice. ...
Missing Essentials Of The ‘Haqiqi Azadi’ Discourse
A long march has been in progress in Pakistan since almost a month, with the pivotal slogan of the marchers ...
Why Imran Khan And Nawaz Sharif Were Denied Their Revolutions
Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, was once reminded by a Western intellectual, in the wake of the ...
Fidel Castro: The David Of The Caribbean Who Dared To Challenge Goliath
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the map of the Communist world changed beyond recognition. The USSR disappeared and ...
Romanticising Irrationality: A Ruinous Idea
Nietzsche’s Hammer Those who romanticise irrationality are convinced that rationality works best when driven by ‘evil’ intentions. To anti-rationalists, passion ...
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 ...
These 4 Events From 1979 May Have Laid The Foundations For 9/11
It’s been 21 years since al-Qaeda terrorists carried out 9/11. To what extent can that be traced back to a ...
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 ...
Colonisation: The Play Pakistanis Are Forced To Act In
Almost six decades ago, a glimpse of Frantz Fanon’s work on international affairs was published in Les Damnes De La ...
Behold: The Forbidden City
Writing in the Atlantic, Lt Gen H.R. McMaster relates how President Xi Jinping gave President Donald Trump a history lesson ...
Making Of A Messiah: The Emergence Of Political Religion In Pakistan
Sacralising the Secular The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones ...
Of Disillusioned Men And Their Existentialist Nihilism
During a recent appearance on a TV show, controversial journalist and ‘intellectual’ Hassan Nisar stated that the country needed a ...
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 ...
Literary Master Of St. Petersburg: Feodor Dostoevsky At 200
The details of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary activities would merit an entire book. For fear of length, an extremely brief discussion ...
The Seer Of China: Reading Lu Xun In Urdu, In The Centenary Year Of The CPC
Widely considered to be the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun – born 140 years ago today – was ...
100 Years On: How The Bolshevik Revolution Transformed South Asian Muslim Imagination
Ziyad Faisal on the legacy of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and its electrifying impact on Muslim thinkers in colonial India
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
IMF Links Staff Level Talks With External Financing Assurances
The IMF has linked the long awaited staff-level...
Attorney General Resign | Govt-Judiciary War | Elections In October: PM Tells Alvi | Imran In LHC
Attorney General Resign | Govt-Judiciary War | Elections...