The language of the Lords has had and continues to have an iron clasp on the post-colonial nation and their dreams. In Pakistan, intelligence is a measure of how proficient in English you are. The language has close ties with the ideas of perceived status, class and value. It is a rather curious case despite…
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret pact reached between France and England in 1916. The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy were also in on the secret decision to divide Ottoman territories in the middle east to protect European interests in the long run. According to the agreement the French would capture or control…
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 the ‘heart’ of Lahore, the heart that has now been forced into the encroached lands…
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 Sahrawi indiginoeous people, led by the ‘Polisario Front’; a resistance movement started by students, activists…
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 leading to oppression which is impossible to be divorced from reality. Here is an attempt…
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 affair to invisiblize the existence of women and confining them to the mere roles…
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 that legacy is the stifling of dissent. The British saddled the sub-continent with intrinsically biased…
