Dr Saulat Nagi

The world is in the grip of another imperialist war: a clash of Titan is indirectly taking place in Ukraine, and a smaller nation, as ever, has become the cannon fodder for their expansionist design. “It is Putin’s war,” the west is shrieking hoarsely to make the world believe that a paranoid individual has imposed […]

So finally, it happened. One of the leading organizations has survived the deep concussion spanning over seven decades to come alive suddenly. Amnesty International, the biggest non-government human rights organisation, has concluded that the state of Israel is committing crimes of apartheid against humanity. A step in the right direction, but too little, and too […]

“To be captured is beside the point,” Nazim Hikmet says, “the point is not to surrender.” But alas, we were not only captured, but we also surrendered meekly, for we chose a wrong battleground, a part of our homeland, and fought with our people. To our dismay, we met the destiny we had written with […]

“Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,” says Shakespeare, “when men are unprepared and look not for it.” Even on the day of his lynching and innovation, the wage-slave in Sialkot would have gone to his work like any other day, with a promise of coming back home in the evening to bring […]

“Searching for democracy in Turkey is like searching for a virgin in whorehouse.” The quote is attributed to the great Marxist poet and one can palpably feel the anguish and despair of Nazim Hikmet hidden in these words. For he, with his comrades and countrymen, fought valiantly against imperialism with the financial backing of the […]

When Prometheus stole the fire from the heavens and gave it to mankind, Zeus decided to punish both. For his transgression, Prometheus was tied to a rock and had his ever-repairing liver devoured by the eagle day after day before finally being rescued by Heracles. To punish men, Zeus instructed Hephaestus to create the first […]

When Prometheus stole the fire from the heavens and gave it to mankind, Zeus decided to punish both. For his transgression, Prometheus was tied to a rock and had his ever-repairing liver devoured by the eagle day after day before finally rescued by Heracles. To punish men, Zeus instructed Hephaestus to create the first woman […]

“If you have tears”’ Shakespeare said, “’prepare to shed them now” stands true for the Taliban. They are back in the saddle and the hegemonic western powers are shedding crocodile tears as they mourn their defeat after losing a 20-year battle in Afghanistan. Was it a Saigon moment for the US but who is the […]

“No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the Megaton bomb. It ends in the total menace, which organised mankind poses to organises men, in the epitome of discontinuity.” When Adorno wrote these lines, millions of Palestinians were undergoing ethnic cleansing by Irgun and Lehi. Half […]

Devastated, destroyed, disillusioned, and desolated by Zion-imperialism, the Palestinians are once again standing at the crossroads of history. Stranded in the political wilderness, ditched by the Arabs, forgotten by the ‘civilised’ West — the Palestinians need to reflect on the effectiveness of the arrows in their own armoury, which, unfortunately, are few and far between. […]