Indigenousness and African literature on January 18, 2023Like Asia, Africa was also a primary colonial site for the European colonisers. It has been the battleground and a scene of contestation for the German as well as the British occupiers who though fought for supremacy, but the local and indigenous populations suffered while living in their lands. The German onslaught on the African […]
Academia-Industry Liaison and Pakistan on January 10, 2023All over the world, the new mode of working for academia is to get associated with the industry to provide solutions for the issues related to the industry and cater for a more conducive environment for society. This trend is prevailing worldwide, not only in science and technology but also in the social sciences. This […]
Magic realism in Mohsin Hamid’s narratives on January 9, 2023The technique of magic realism is a postmodern trait and has been practiced by many including Margaret Atwood in her The Blind Assassin and Gabriel Garcia in his One a hundred Years of Solitude. The purpose of the writers using the technique of magic realism is to find a probable possibility of the impossible and […]
Competitively Cooperative on December 30, 2022Darwin was right in his philosophy of survival of the fittest, but the same competition led humanity to evolve cooperatively to resolve the issues and crises created by this survival of the fittest. Human life has passed through multiple stages of its progression toward civilisation as it has moved from competition to cooperation. Competition has […]
Collaborating humanity and nature on December 21, 2022Man and nature are integral to each other because their life is mutually dependent. The inclusion of nature as a character and its manifestations have been a significant part of literature produced in different parts of the world until the movement of Humanism was introduced in literature during the renaissance period. Even in the 21st […]
Technology Kills Humaneness on December 12, 2022Morris, Huxley, Ruskin, and Gandhi also advocated a dislike for machines and technology. They believed these were ugly and caused damage to humanity. These philosophers might have their reasons, but the technology that the 21st century offers humanity is a killer of humanity as well. There may be a counterargument that technology has eased the […]
Dreamworld of postcolonial subject on December 9, 2022The postcolonial subject has dreamt of reconstituting his world, primarily aiming at getting rid of the white man out of his country and assuming power himself and, beyond that, colonising instead the white man’s country. The dream could never physically materialise. However, the possibility of writing back to the empire became possible when the local […]
Electronic Hegemony on December 3, 2022Famous Italian philosopher, Gramsci, gave us the concept of cultural hegemony, which is when one begins to accept the alien culture to be the best and begins to blame his own culture for something unacceptable. In the modern world of the 21st century, we are coming across new realities of life-shaping and reshaping our lives […]
Femininity and 21st-Century literature on December 2, 2022Literature has advocated women’s emancipation and empowerment at the socio-political level. Whether classical English and American literature or postcolonial literature, it has been portraying the ideology of women’s freedom on the domestic and social front. This style of writing, though feministic in nature, is a style that not only highlights women’s issues and the consequences […]
Love thy State, not the Individual on November 23, 2022Pakistan is a postcolonial state with inherited legacies of a colonial mindset, harbouring some of the prejudices developed during that time, including love for the person instead of the state. This marker of Pakistani identity has harmed us as a nation more than it has served because it proved a significant hindrance in strengthening state […]