The vulnerable is infidel on November 8, 2018In June 1940, the French army capitulated to the Nazis. The German Frankenstein, prepared and pampered to annihilate Soviet Union, came back to haunt its mentors. Fascism, familiar with the inherent weakness of its liberal version, decided to conquer its own kind before unleashing a blitzkrieg against Socialism. After pulverizing the Allied forces Erich von […]
Changing weathers on October 25, 2018The month of October heralds a change in the weather. Nearly a century ago, the workers writhed in the misery of oppression, weathered a storm of brutality and crowned themselves into power. Contrary to the Arab Spring, which turned into a winter of discontent, it brightened the world with a rosy glow, with an unpolluted […]
Nobel prize: not worth renouncing principles on October 20, 2018“The best way” Oscar Wilde says “to avoid temptation is to yield to it” and one needs to be a saint or a radical to curb the temptation when the coveted trophy of Nobel Prize is in sight. In 1964, Sartre’s authenticity was challenged by this irresistible temptation yet true to his non-conformism he defied […]
Chile: another holocaust of Marxists on September 28, 2018For Hegel, real is rational; socialism, according to this logic, could not translate itself into a reality, hence it is condemned to be an ideology. The fallacy is not uncommon and is advanced by the quarters that have little or no inkling about the basic tenets of Marxist theory. Did Marx and Engels ever promise […]
The holocaust of our time on September 13, 2018“Is religion still possible after Auschwitz?” Herbert Marcuse inquires. The question under present conditions needs to be reframed to be posed again; “Is religion or civilisation or both still possible in a post 9/11 world suffering a consistent Holocaust by imperialism?” The answer has its affirmative and negative dimensions and can be grasped in its […]
Guard thyself against the guardians on July 25, 2018In the chequered history of Pakistan, the court’s verdict upon the (in) famous Asghar Khan Case was a watershed. One can hardly cast a doubt about the intrinsic nature of a state where all organs are in state of flux, competing not for mere hegemony, but for outright domination as well. In the political sphere, […]
Apolitical is political on July 11, 2018History of India Marx says is no history; it is the history of invaders. History of Pakistan is the history of plunder, privation, and pulverisation. It is a sad saga of an imperialist’s design, of a prophylactic decolonisation, of religious chicanery, of political deceit, of direct coercive armed rule or Bonapartism and indirect class based […]
As fascists awaken globally, Israel will have to face incoming antisemitic onslaught on June 19, 2018Ever since the new world order was launched, the world has become a pigeonhole for humanity, terribly marred by toxic alienation, where truth is a fallacy, not spoken for its own sake but to attain a goal. As the poet Aime Cesaire says, the only thing worth starting “is the end of the world” and […]
Demanding without grace on May 7, 2018There goes the big piece of the cake as a mouthwatering feast for those who are perpetually in a habit of demanding the largest share without much grace while receiving it without thanks. ‘Political power’, Mao says, “grows out from the barrel of a gun” and keeping in view the political conditions of the world […]
Sleeping with dogs on April 5, 2018Another scandal has rocked the world of cricket to its bare bones and as Camus says, “it has shown its wrinkles and its wounds, old and new”. It has aged all at once and with it aged the spirit of the game. The apocalypse has not come to hurt any minnow of cricket but afflicted […]