Siachen – Anwar Maqsoods ascent into oblivion on May 16, 2016Witnessing the intellectual and aesthetic degradation of a significant cultural artist is a difficult thing for many reasons; first and foremost, it signals the gradual implosion of an aesthetic heritage and secondly it means that the urgent calling for a new aesthetic momentum becomes imminent. Anwar Maqsood was one of the principle archetypal voices that […]
Mah-e-Mir: how poetry withdrew from its natural persona on May 13, 2016What’s the difference between a poem and a story? More importantly, how are poems effectively rendered through a medium that uses images to tell a story? This may sound like an unnecessary series of pedantic questions but one cannot help wonder why the creative team of Mah-e-Mir did not engage with these questions while conceptualising […]
The Participatory Cut on May 3, 2016It is notoriously difficult to define the absolute contours of a social-democratic movement. What extent and depth of mass participation constitutes the validity of such a movement? What confers democratic efficacy on the determinants of such a movement? Can a social-democratic movement be analytically distinguished from a social-democratic revolution? These are difficult questions. The above […]