Struggle for Social and Economic Freedom in India and Pakistan

Struggle for Social and Economic Freedom in India and Pakistan

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Women and the Independence Movement

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

The Idea of Democracy in India

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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,…

Are we Azaad?

August 18, 2020August 27, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Ensuring Freedom?

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

A Modest Proposal

August 13, 2020August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Editor’s Note: Digital Divide

August 10, 2020August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

On Human Nature and Socialism

August 10, 2020August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Editor’s Note: Crackdown!

August 3, 2020 News DeskEnglish

There is no doubt that there has been a long history of manipulation, control, forceful silencing and crackdown on dissenting voices and ideas in our country from colonial to post-colonial times. But ever since the Tabdeeli Sarkaar had held its…

Imagining a Nazi Pakistan: the swastikas of MMA

August 3, 2020 News DeskEnglish

By Salman Sikandar If we were to imagine a Nazi Pakistan, it won’t be something like we see in movies about Nazi Germany apparently. There won’t be any Swastikas hanging on huge red flags but there will be pictures of…