Haider Butt I was born in a poor household in a working class neighbourhood. It is adjacent to an industrial area so our neighbours were mostly factory workers and their families. My father was a trade unionist and a labour…
Month: June 2020
Commemorating Hobsbawm
Fatima Shahzad On June 9, 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, Eric J. Hobsbawm was born and he went on to contribute more to the study of the 20th century than perhaps any other historian. The main feature of his…
Book Review: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Hamza Waqas Mohammad Hannif is a critically acclaimed Pakistani author and journalist. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008), was followed by Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2011) and Red Birds (2018). All three novels were well received…
Guns versus Butter
Masab Ahmed Born out of a catastrophic Partition of the subcontinent, Pakistan immersed became an ideological state with an existential crisis. The argument was that with a colossal neighbour was ready to obliterate Pakistan’s very fabric and that in the…
Online-Isation of Education
Uzair Salman Online education may for now be the only option at the disposal of governments across the globe given the near-global lockdown, but it comes with a cost no government, especially one governing a developing nation, is ready to…
COVID-19 and Education for Students in Peripheries
Muhammad Bezinjo The outbreak of the contagious COVID-19 virus in Pakistan has disrupted social life and the economy of the country. The pandemic has also affected the education sector and universities were forced to adopt the online lecture system. This…
آزاد جموں و کشمیر: انٹر نیٹ مسائل حل کئے بغیر آن لائن کلاسوں کے اجراء کے خلاف جامعہ کوٹلی کے طلباء کا احتجاج
امجد مہدی جامعہ کوٹلی کے طلبہ کی جانب سے کل بروز منگل پاکستان کے زیر انتظام کشمیر کی جامعات میں آن لائن کلاسوں کیلئے ضروری انتظامات کی عدم دستیابی کے خلاف احتجاجی مظاہرہ کیا گیا۔جس میں طلبہ کی بڑی تعداد…
Editor’s Note: ‘I Can’t Breathe’
The last words spoken by George Floyd in his final moments – as life was being squeezed out of him in a naked show of brutality and power – contained the essence of billions of voices of the oppressed peoples…
Black Panthers Resurface
Shireen Rizvi explains why the Black Panthers have been flanking protestors in Black Lives Matter protests
From Protests to Street Art
Aminah W. Chaudhry Wherever there is brutality, there is resistance and wherever there is resistance there is art. Art has always been a strong expression by human beings, and I believe the world has always seen great events covered by…