Nishta N. In his book, Poet of the Revolution, Lal Singh Dil writes- Once, for instance, following a Brahmin who resembled Tagore, I entered the little pool of water by the well where the Jat boys were bathing. I must have been…
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…
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…
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…
Shikha Mishra Preamble of the Indian Constitution “We, the people of India having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a [Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic] and to secure to all its citizens: Justice, social, economic and political; Liberty of thought,…
Maryam Mirza It is immensely ironic that around the world the former colonies of the European imperialists celebrate their independence every year. Nations rejoice their purported freedoms while they govern themselves within the very state machinery they have inherited from…
Rabia Wali Are we free or still entangled in some colonial myth of Law and order which helped to detain people for as long as one fell in the broad spectrum of preventive laws? No, we are not, which further…
By: Ali Mehdi Zaidi Inequality of education is a process on a spectrum. There are the entirely excluded. Individuals who, either because the vile uncle does not like women educated or because even the desire for education struggles to survive…
The huge divide in our education system is known to everyone in Pakistan, so this edition of The Students’ Herald aims to highlight another serious aspect of this divide. This aspect became magnified in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns: the immense…
Fatima Shahzad How many times have you heard, “Socialism is inconsistent with our nature because human beings are inherently selfish” or that “Hierarchies exist in nature, thus an egalitarian society cannot exist”? Unfortunately, this is a notion all too common…