BOOK REVIEW: Hoodbhoy Critically Examines Pakistan’s National Project
BOOK REVIEW: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future, London and New York, 2023 Pakistani nuclear physicist and social activist ...
Monday, June 5, 2023
Tag: subcontinent
Did British Colonialism Improve Conditions For Native Populations?
Recent authoritative research has busted the myth of the so-called ‘benign’ British colonialism in the Indian Subcontinent. For gullible or ...
Pakistan’s Identity Crisis
Pakistan has a plethora of inherited problems, but the identity crisis did not count as a major one only up ...
A Tragic Murder Of History Is Occurring In Both Pakistan And India
Distortion or falsification of history is a moral crime. This scribe as a history teacher is a witness to this ...
Sharing Untold Stories Of Indian Prisoners Of War
An English historian has made a trip to India in search of memories of Indian Army Prisoners of War in ...
Jinnah’s Vision For Pakistan: Fundamentalist Or Secular State?
Whenever I walk past the confines of Lincoln’s Inn, the most prestigious Inn to have housed many political geniuses and ...
Zafarul Azam’s Historical Fiction Teleports Us To Partition Itself
Sometimes I wonder that if I were to be teleported to the time when some historical event was in progress, ...
The Willing Contender: A Case For Renewing Radical Muslim Modernism
The Rise and Demise of Muslim Modernism The breakup of Pakistan in December 1971 produced a ‘New Pakistan.’ ZA. Bhutto, ...
How Dalrymple Dives Into The Anarchy After Aurangzeb – I
The events which followed the death of the sixth great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, are well known. Every high ...
A Four-Point Agenda For India-Pakistan Collaboration
With India and Pakistan celebrating the 75th anniversary of their Independence, we are both immensely happy and optimistic, and yet ...
The Best Memories Are Made Around A Table
Migrants brings with them their own traditions and what we grow up with remains with us through our lives. Food ...
Lata’s Legend: As A Subcontinent Experienced It
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, as we walked along the busy Ginza street in Tokyo, I suddenly stopped in my ...
The Golden Voice of Lata Mangeshkar
The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen! Lata Mangeshkar, one of the world’s biggest cultural icons and a singer ...
Go West, Young Man!
The title of this article must have had a reincarnation in the Subcontinent, because this is what the people of ...
What’s In A Name: The Strange Process By Which The Subcontinent’s Two Large Countries Came To Be Known As India And Pakistan
In August 1947, British India was partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan. The western half of Pakistan comprised ...
History, The Historian’s Craft And South Asian History: A Study Plan
The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing, ...
Fighting Like Kautilya: How The Taliban Grand Strategy Put Arthashastra Principles Into Practice
The eventual return of the Taliban to the helm at Kabul may be described as “sweeping,” but it cannot be ...
Chandni Begum: A Resonant Portrait of Muslim North India
In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t ...
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
Man Puts Minor’s Hand In Hot Oil Pan For Refusing To Wash Dishes
MULTAN: A young child's hands were put in...
Fact Check: Women Prisoners’ Mistreatment
MYTH: In recent developments, Imran Khan, the embattled...