Dark Side Of Hygge: Understanding Denmark’s Social Model
Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on the 1st of November. Danish social democrat prime minister Mette Frederiksen dissolved parliament ...
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Tag: socialism
How Jaun Elia Continues To Speak To Our Social Realities
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. Jaun Elia’s case is ...
How Dr. Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) Inspired A Generation Of Activists
Many people who had contributed to the arts, politics and culture of South Asian have passed away this year. Among ...
Kahlil Gibran’s Revolt Against The Nexus Of Capitalism And Religion
Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists ...
In Memory Of John Lennon, The Revolutionary Artist
When the world was overwhelmed with war mania and political revolutions, John Lennon was painting an image of a beautiful ...
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 ...
Beyond Cold War Imagination: What Really Happened At The 20th Congress Of The Communist Party Of China
From 16 to 22 October, the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its 20th National Congress. The aim was not ...
The Political Making And Mutation Of Pakistan’s New Middle-Class
The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...
Maududi’s Greatest Critic: Safdar Mir On Maududism And Capitalism
Translator’s Introduction: September 25 today marks the 119th birthday of one of the leading Islamist scholars and ideologues of the ...
Rethinking Resistance In The Age Of Capitalist Realism
Radical politics, traversing the various strands of Anarchism and Communism with somewhat loathsome practical incarnations, always offered inextricable resistance to ...
From Chairman Mao To Benazir Bhutto: My Political Odyssey In MRD And Beyond
I was born to a poor father, who hailed from a Katcha village, known as Kitchi Baig Saryab. He was ...
Dreaming Of Madinah: Imran In Wonderland
On a beaten track On January 17, an article written by PM Imran Khan appeared in some English and Urdu ...
The 1973 Constitution: From Safeguarding Democracy To Encouraging Theo-Democracy?
As a young man in the late 1980s, I often visited a recluse by the name of Dr G.M. Mehkri, ...
From Maulana To Mao-Lana And Beyond: Bhashani’s Dream
Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...
He Could Bring Lahore To A Halt With One Word: My Friend And Comrade, Rao Tariq
It is very difficult to write about a very dear friend and comrade, especially with a close association spanning more ...
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
Pakistan, Populism And Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf
Populism has become a buzzword in today's political...
Meritocracy And Inequalities
Meritocracy is an absolute farce. It is a...