تحریر: حسنین جمیل فریدی 13 اگست 2020 ، مملکتِ خدادِ اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کا ضلع تربت۔ یہاں کی مشہور شاہراہِ آبسر کے بیچ و پیچ جشن آزادی کا پریڈ مارچ رواں دواں ہے۔جلوس کے چند میٹرز کے…
Scam: The Independence we were promised but never given
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…
Fascism in independent India
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…
Religious bigotry in India and Pakistan
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.…
FREEDOM THROUGH GENERATIONS & THE PERSPECTIVE SHIFTS
– Maham Shah I am from a generation who have seen their grandparents staring blankly in distance Recollecting T h e P a s t T h e T r a n s i t i o n. For them…
شفقت ملک: آزار ریاست کا لاپتہ شہری
Jaleel Agha شفقت ملک ایک پڑھا لکھا باشعور نوجوان ہے, جو سندھ یونیورسٹی سے کمپیوٹر سائنس کی تعلیم مکمل ہونے کے بعد ایک سکول میں پڑھا رہا تھا اور اس کے ساتھ ہی سماجی کاموں میں بھی ہمیسشہ متحرک رہتا…
آئینے سے قلم تک
Manha Haider کبھی زندگی کے ورق پلٹ کر ماضی میں جھانکوں تو بچپن کی یاد سے جڑا ایک نام”وقار خان” بہت شدت سے یاد آتا ہے ۔ مردان کے پرائیویٹ سکول میں نرسری میں وہ پہلا دوست جس نے…
KINGDOM LOST UNDERNEATH THE SANDS OF TIME
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…
Situating Independence and Freedom along Partition and Separation
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…
The revolutionary poet of East Punjab: Lal Singh Dil
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…