ہمارے معاشرے میں جب بھی معاشی و سماجی پسماندگی کی بات ہو تو اکثر “دانشور” اور لوگ مغرب کی ترقی اور اس سے سیکھنے کا سبق دیتے یاد آتے ہیں۔ جس سے واضح ہوتا ہے کہ یہ لوگ نہ صرف…
Day: April 20, 2021
Who Exposed The Biggest Clandestine Colonial Carve-up In The Middle East?
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret pact reached between France and England in 1916. The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy were also in on the secret decision to divide Ottoman territories in the middle east to protect European…
Fiction: Tilsm – A postcolonial dystopia
The artists for the cover art is Omar Gilani. you can visit the artists webpage by clicking here. The crowd had gathered around some poor soul again, their only daily entertainment that still kept them sane, human, and manageable; interesting…
بعد از استعماری فکر: ایک تعارف
استعماریت (کلونیالیزم) اور سامرایت (امپیریالیزم) میں یہ فرق ہے کہ سامراجیت ایک سوچ ہے جس کے تحت ایک قوم خود کو دوسری قوم سے افضل و برتر سمجھتی ہے، اور استعماریت اس سوچ کو عملی جامہ پہنانے کا ایک طریقہ…
Lahore’s Postcolonial Food Culture
Drive down the Main Boulevard and you’ll see the road surrounded by little cafes and restaurants offering cuisines from all over the world. For the overpriced, supposedly best desi food you’ll have to make your way into what was once…
Africa’s Last Colony
After nearly a hundred years of being colonized by Spain, Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975 soon after Spanish colonial forces left the region. Since then a battle for liberation from Morrocan control has been waged by the…
Reading against the grain: European narratives and stories of the colony
Post-colonialism becomes an inescapable reality when it comes to understanding the ailments of the contemporary post-colonial world. From global politics, imperial policies, and strategies to the prevalent patriarchal practices, cultures, and norms of society, all are shaped by colonial history…
Postcolonial Identity
The wrinkled hands of my mother gently caress through my hair and make me ponder whether I remind of touchwood; hope for a better future. The imbalance of her body tightly clutches my arm, as if I am the traverse…
Obituary: I. A. Rehman, a light in the darkness
Last Tuesday Pakistan lost its “Father of Human Rights” Akhtar Rehman is famously known as I. A Rehman. His work encompasses women’s rights, Labour rights, Rights of the disappeared and for every oppressed voiceless of this country. That’s just the…
Women against Colonialism: A Forgotten Struggle
The pens that wrote history have always been in the hands of men. When these pens were scribbling ink on parchments, they forgot something very basic and very crucial; they forgot to write about their women. So much has been…