قیصر جاوید ریاست جموں کشمیر کے تقریباً دو کروڑ انسان پچھلے ستر سالوں سے “آزادی” کے نعرے بلند کرتے اپنے مستقبل کا تعین کرنے کا جدوجہد کر رہے ہیں۔ کچھ لوگوں کا خیال ہے کہ آزادی سے کشمیریوں کی مراد،…
South Asia and Pakistan
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…
جشن آزادی مبارک
Sayyedaah Jabeen e Hussyn نعرہ گونجا تو دیکھا کہ ٹی وی کی اسکرین پر سبز دوپٹہ اوڑھے اور سفید لباس پہنے ایک عورت لوگوں کے ہجوم سے گھری ہوئی ان سے جشن آزادی کے موقع پر کی جانے والی تقریبات…
Struggle for Social and Economic Freedom in India and Pakistan
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
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
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?
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…
روح قائد سے
عمار یاسر میری ایک نظم….. کہاں گئے میرے خواب و خیال کے موسم وہ جن کی خاطر میری روح و جسم چاک ہوئے ہے یادگار تو باقی مگر اے میرے قائد تیرے سخن تیرے افکار زیر خاک ہوئے فسانہ ہو…
Ensuring Freedom?
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
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…