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بعد از استعماری فکر: ایک تعارف

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskFeatures, Urdu & Other local languages, Urdu Editorial

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

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskArticles

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

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskNews and Analysis

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

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskFeatures

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

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskArticles

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

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskArticles

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

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskNews and Analysis

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…

The colonial tactic of stifling dissent

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskArticles

In the wake of the British departure after the partition, the colonial legacy still lives on, the remnants of which have become a noose strung around the necks of present-day detractors of the government. One of the vile offshoots of…

How colonialism shaped our collective consciousness

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskNews and Analysis

1652 was an important year in world history. It was that year when the first European settlement in southern Africa was established by the Dutch East India Company at Table Bay, 30 miles (48 km) north of the cape. It…

Book Review: Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State

April 20, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskCultural Desk

In this piece, Muhammad Shehryar reviews the latest book which has been compiled and edited by Pakistan’s former top ambassador; Maleeha Lodhi. If you take a closer look at the history of Pakistan and the current situation, you will see…