Suffering which speaks on April 6, 2017One distinguished reader of my articles has asked me to scribble something about the plight of his father, who went to Saudi Arabia six months ago to perform pilgrimage but since then has lost in the wilderness of the desert. Despite his appeals to various authorities, he is yet to find any clue about his […]
That which is, cannot be true III on March 29, 2017The message of Faiz has met the same fate. By achieving a status of an icon, his image has become a standard-bearer of the existing reality and not something against it. He is discussed in symposia of elites owned by the expropriators who read his remarkable poetry filled with lyrics and enjoy the cadence of […]
That which is, cannot be true II on March 28, 2017The art, which once incited resistance, in the world of today has apparently lost its subversive force. The contest between the feudal and the peasant, the dacoit and a folk hero; a love affair between a village heroin who regularly swam across the river to meet her beloved appeared to have eclipsed in the past. […]
That which is, cannot be true I on March 27, 2017Unlike the historians, history does not suffer from Alzheimer nor does it regress to senile dementia, the two conditions very common to the mortal human beings. It is familiar with all kind of changes; it vividly and repeatedly keeps reminding the events or the persons who either altered its course or tried to mutilate its […]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind on March 17, 2017Any state, which stifles criticism becomes totalitarian. The criticism ought to be healthy; this statement is a convenient bulwark where totalitarianism finds its final refuge.Who will be thatMr Clean, an above board judge, a phenomenon unique to fascism – where the idea of a charismatic leader is already performed in the liberalistic celebration of a […]
Gazing into an abyss (II) on March 10, 2017The political vacuum led to Bonapartism. Pakistan became a state of gunrunners. If today we find ourselves hostage to the non-state armed actors, there is hardly any reason to wonder about. Partition was the key to maintaining the British hegemony in India, hence, under the banner of Islam the country was gifted to the ML, […]
Gazing into an abyss (part I) on March 3, 2017The joke of our time is the suicide of intention (Adorno).After the hara-kiri of Soviet Union, the majority of the intellectuals especially belonging to the bourgeoisie enthusiastically gave a verdict in favour of an absolute victory of free-market. A euphoric claim suited to the whims of an actor turned president but not to the analytical […]
Suffering, thy name is woman on February 17, 2017Many Muslim societies, living in both Muslim-dominated states and in the Western world, are embracing religious extremism. In most of the west, the unity among the Muslims is following the classical ghettoization, once considered a trademark of Judaism. One needs the clarity and courage of Rosa-Luxemburg to express and condemn this self-imposed segregation. “What do […]
The Intensified Class-War on February 10, 2017Adorno once said, “The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.” By contemptuously rejecting the game of musical chairs of shifting power between two equally anti-people parties, people of the US have left their ruling class stupefied. Their revenge has set forth the conscious choice […]
God is back? on February 3, 2017Leaving his legacy behind, another president of the US has eclipsed in the history. The one, who in the ‘best interest’ of human species ordered the annihilation of humanity. Probably a‘noble’ cause, why else the ‘Nobelcommittee’ nominated him as the most deserving candidate for the peaceprize?The bewildering question remains,how a peacecommitteecould become an accomplice in […]