Roman women filled the Capitoline Hill in the 3rd century BCE when Consul Marcus Porcius Cato resisted attempts to squash laws limiting women’s use to expensive goods. “If they are victorious now, as soon as they begin to your equal, they will become your superiors,” he cried. Even after centuries, Cato’s cry has charged the […]
Hazaras Marginalization: The Resolve Awaited
The Hazara killing is a brutal tale of continued persecution. Steep hill of Kabul is still filled with grief as hardly any space has been left after the burial of teen ager school girls. Mass funeral ceremony in Kabul was performed where many of the girls could not be found and the death toll in […]
Marginalized segments: children of the lesser god?
The hardest marginalization and social exclusion is lived by Nesha Rao, a transgender woman, who earned her law degree by begging for ten years on the streets of metropolitan of Karachi. Now she is working as an activist of transgender rights. As a practicing lawyer, she has dealt with more than fifty cases of her […]
No exit: pandemic spells
As the pandemic has impacted all spheres of life, it has presaged a long-term lockdown the world over. The land of Jean Paul Sartre has witnessed thousands of deaths in the first pandemic of 21st century; his widely argued authentic theme of “Being and Nothingness” has dominated the global arena and his basic philosophy is […]
The choice between hunger and infectiona
A new wave of hunger is imminent as the virus age is shaping the novel contours of socio-economic fabrics. This will essentially impact all segments, sectors and slices of human existence for many epochs. This facade is going to be multiplied more exotically with pervasive poverty, structural injustice, maneuvering of religious dogmas and capitalization of […]
The Silence of Critical Voices
While addressing Human Rights Convention on International Human Rights Day in December 2019, UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, admitted that “the world has failed on acting quickly on early warning signs and has not invested in early prevention, which could save human lives.” The failure to recognise the threat of past genocides in different times and […]
Juvenile cell gazing at the horizon
Kites flying in the February air always fascinated him. They added colours to the 10-year-old’s mundane routine, and his dream to fly high like them took him to immortal times. Hamza belongs to the slums of Shahdara wherein his parents indulge in draining domestic labour from dawn to dusk. He is a part of a […]