Vartika Mishra While I am writing this article about Freedom and the Idea of freedom, i am going back to the memory lane and recall all the names who are behind the bars because they questioned the fascist hindu government and they raised their voice against oppression. From Dr. Kafeel to Sharjeel Imam, Sharjeel Usmani…
Faroagh ul Islam mom kī tarah jalte rahe ham shahīdoñ ke tan rāt-bhar jhilmilātī rahī sham-e-sub.h-e-vatan Makhdoom Mohiuddin’s Chaand taaro’n ka bann is a pithy description of our historic struggle against the British Raj. The battle of Plassey, fought in 1757, set in motion the nascent struggle for freedom and culminated into a fully organised…
Chandan Kumar Divided subcontinent attained independence from the British colonial regime on the eve of 15th August 1947. Several ideological differences led to the creation of two new countries with similar history of resistance against oppression and repression of dissent. Today, after seventy-three years of independence, the question arises that where do the two nations…
Amna Zaffar ‘Pakistan’, a country of mixed ethnicities, cultures, languages and history, which all came together under one identity, in 1947. Where independence of Pakistan is only 73 years old there’s a 272 years old, Muslim independent state in Pakistan that once stood with all it’s glory and wealth amidst British colonization. This state was…
Mudabbir Ali The independence of India and Pakistan (from each other) was made possible through partition which later unfolded as one of the most violent mass-migrations in modern world history. At the end of the second world war it was clear that the colonial power was on its way back, meanwhile it had assumed the…
Yubaraj Chaulagain Many nations of the world during the period of early capitalism were forced to live under the colonial rule. Although colonialism had its brutal existence even from the early state of nations, but it got its different ideological and organizational shape in the early state of capitalist development. That time it was considered…
Debojit Banerjee In 1945, just after World War II ended, the police opened fire upon protesters gathered to protest the incarceration and trial of three Indian National Army (INA) officers who were facing unjust trial at the hands of the British government. The impact of this event spread through other parts of India and led to…
Maleeha Basharat The Islamabad police just arrested trans-activist Julie Khan. She is known for her viral social media series “The Naked Truth”. She often talks about the problems that transwomen face including sexual abuse, harassment, poverty. A month earlier, a 14-year-old Christian girl Maira Shahbaz, was kidnapped at gunpoint and forcefully married to a Muslim…
