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 […]
Experimenting with language on November 22, 2022Undoubtedly, the English language has acquired a globally functional status in the last few decades, especially in the formerly occupied British colonies. Though the fury of colonisation abated, the spread of the English language is now because of electronic colonisation through the internet and social media. But the postcolonial writers, especially at the end of […]
Bapsi’s Crow Eaters and the art of moralising on November 10, 2022The debate that art should work only as art to entertain, called Art for Art’s sake, or that art should have some didactic purpose has converted into one in the writings of Bapsi Sidhwa. In her fiction, these two have been skillfully combined into one that one is amused by the narrative and characters along […]
Living the Age of Viralism on October 27, 2022The twenty-first century witnessed the virulence of viruses (like Covid-19), and many others are of social significance, especially in the case of the activities of celebrities in media and sociopolitical scenarios, mostly told as VIRAL. Later, the term was further translated into the form of putting the ‘Internet on Fire,’ especially if it was a […]
Digital storytelling on October 26, 2022Human beings are bestowed by nature with the language they can speak, listen and devise strategies for better survival. The same language satisfies the human trait of telling stories with multiple hues and colors. Telling stories has not only been the job of professional storytellers but ordinary human beings are also born with a natural […]
The Age of Digimodernism on October 9, 2022The postmodern theorist and critic Baudrillard proposed that the postmodern world in which we exist is the copy twice removed from reality in this age of digital technologies. He further pointed out that we are surrounded and constantly bombarded by the train of simulacra, convinced that this is a new reality termed hyper-reality. Allan Kerby […]