The world is not our oyster on November 7, 2020Freedom 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. […]
The world is not our oyster on November 5, 2020“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. A magazine of a remote repute, a sinking ship or to be precise a cadaver on oxygen tent chose a method of […]
The smallest worm will turn on October 22, 2020“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 […]
Julian: A caged bird with bright feathers on October 9, 2020“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. […]
Is it legitimate to dream? on September 23, 2020‘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 […]
9/11 – The myth and the reality on September 10, 2020For 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 […]
The murder the world wrote on August 21, 2020As 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 […]
Blasphemy and stupefying powerlessness on August 4, 2020“In the nineteenth century, the Germans painted their dream, and it always turned into a vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable, and it was already a dream” (Adorno). The people of the sub-continent painted their dream with blood – it was a nightmare! The partition bled the humanity white, the color of […]
More in love with desire than desired on July 30, 2020Kashmir is back in the news, so is the abduction of journalists in Pakistan. Apparently the two issues have little or no relevance with each other,but no issue has an isolated independent existence for they all relate to different forms of human exploitations, which are inherently identicalbecause ‘all of them are applied against the same […]
The Alienated Punjab on June 30, 2020‘Workers’, the Communist Manifesto – the biblical document of the world proletariat – says, ‘have nothing to lose but their chains’. However, it does not tell about those who have nothing to lose but do not move to feel their chains or have resigned to them. The Indian partition gave birth to a traumatic and […]