Dr Saulat Nagi

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” in one of Shakespearean tragedies Mark Anthony utters these words of grief to the Romans. Caesar was guilefully murdered by Brutus and Cassius his close aides; they considered his desire of assuming the reign as Roman emperor ambitious and impertinent. […]

In comes the month of December loaded not only with the festivities of Christmas but heralding a winter of discontent for the majority— shoved in the pigeonhole of scarcity and domination— pretending to be living happily in the fake and superimposed contentment. However, some in the lot insist upon scaling the shell of regimented contentment […]

Freedom demands the consciousness of servitude, those who consider servitude as freedom; their demand for freedom loses its meanings and its dignity. “Whoever has provoked men to rage against him” Nietzsche says “has always gained a party in his favour, too”. The publication of the caricatures of the prophet of Islam has proved Nietzsche succinct. […]

“Tread a worm on the tail” John Heywood states,” and it must turn again”. Shakespeare with his artistic stroke gave it the authenticity, states, “the smallest worm will turn being trodden on”. A few days ago a former Pakistani premier, trodden upon, blamed a few army generals for all the national ills. Certain quarters enthusiastically […]

“It’s the invention of clothes and not nature, that made ‘private parts’ private” and once established as private, society reified the idea into eternal and natural. The tabooed privacy led to the repression of Eros, for Freud the midwife of neurosis but integral to the perpetuation of civilization for its dependence on the reality principal. […]

‘T he armed forces and order itself today have responded, drivenpurely by patriotic duty and nothing else to save the country from the unyielding chaos’. The past few generations of Pakistan are familiar if not accustomed to these words. Repeated frequently, whenever the extra-constitutional forces took over the rein of the state, they have leftdeep […]

For capital, time is money, and money is a divine gospel, albeit it has liquidated the divinity, leaving Marx to analyze andcensure its gospel. With its appearance on the world’s stage, capitalism has not only changed all previous relations but altered the concepts of time and space too. Capital by its definition is value in […]

As fire burns Beirut, the infernal flames of isolation and genocide engulf the Palestinians for whom ‘existence is an imperfect tense that never becomes present’. One of the imperial petrol pumps, carved out of the ashes of Ottoman Empire, has officially recognized the Zionist state of Israel. These tribes with colourful flags aresatellites than states […]