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State Sovereignty Within Borders and in the External Sphere

By thehighasia
September 4, 2020
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by Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Contemporary states are territorial entities whom international law invests with sovereign right over their recognized territory within well-defined and demarcated borders. International law outlaws the violation of the territorial integrity of a state. The state enjoys the exclusive prerogative to exercise the monopoly of power over its territories and population. It means the right of states …

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How capitalism drives cancel culture

By thehighasia
July 16, 2020
in :  Education, extremism, Features, Feminism, Human Rights, Latest, Literature, Media, Opinion, Politics, Resistance, Saudi Arabia, Slider, Socialism, Society, US, Women, World
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Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. by Helen Lewis Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent. Commentators warn of “mob justice,” while activists exult in their newfound power to change the world. Both groups …

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Mubarak Wakhani: the Leonardo da Vinci of Yamga

By thehighasia
June 26, 2020
in :  Afghanistan, Archives, Arts & Culture, Central Asia, Heritage, High Asia Region, History, Latest, Literature, Pamir Ranges, People, Religion, Slider, Society
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Yamga Wakhani Museum is a treasure trove of artefacts, pottery, musical instruments and various objects invented by or remained in use of the Mubarak Wakhani Farman Ali Mubarakkadam Ibn Abdullo, popularly known as Mubarak Wakhani, was a multi-faceted personality — a philosopher, poet, musician, astronomer, art teacher, and Sufi (mystic) scholar — from Badakhshan, Tajikistan. Born in 1839 in a small village …

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Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh

By thehighasia
June 18, 2020
in :  Afghanistan, Archives, Astore, Baltistan Division, Britain, Central Asia, Chitral, Darel, Features, Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Hindu Kush Ranges, History, India, Karakoram Ranges, Kashmir, Latest, Lifestyle, Literature, Nagar, Pakistan, Pamir Ranges, People, Slider, Society, Tangir, World, Xinjiang
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British colonial officer John Biddulph’s book is considered as one of the pioneering works in English that provided an insight to the secluded societies, lifestyles, languages,  customs, marriages, festivals, ruling families and general characteristics of the many tribes that inhabited the Hindu Kush region Reviewed by Basharat Wakhani Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh written by British colonial officer John Biddulph is considered as one of the …

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The Pamirian Languages: Between Past and Future

By Editor
May 19, 2020
in :  Afghanistan, Arts & Culture, Central Asia, China, Chitral, Features, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gojal, High Asia Region, Latest, Literature, Pakistan, Pamir Ranges, People, Slider, Society, Xinjiang
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The case of the Shughni language by Farman Ali The Pamirian languages are spoken by people in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral regions of Pakistan as well as Xinjiang province of China. The Pamirian Languages — a linguistic term — has been employed even before the advent of the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, by one of the pioneers …

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Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle

By thehighasia
May 11, 2020
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There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their own lifetimes, despite believing unapologetically in their own greatness, achieving immortality only after death   Herald Report On May 11, Google celebrated the 108th birthday of renowned short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto with a doodle. Saadat Hasan Manto was …

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Remembering Antonio Gramsci

By thehighasia
May 8, 2020
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By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci died on April 27, 1937, after eleven years in fascist prisons. We remember his revolutionary life and his contributions to the struggle against capitalism. It’s late at night on Turin’s Via dell’Arcivescovado. A man with a Southern accent shows up at L’Ordine Nuovo’s office, insisting on speaking with the lead editor. For L’Ordine Nuovo is not only the workers’ …

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Pandemic and poetry

By Aftab Husain
April 3, 2020
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Dr Aftab Husain in his essay critiques South Asian literates’ response to catastrophe and epidemics and how writers in Pakistan react to COVID-19   There is a proverb in Persian and Urdu that could be roughly translated thus — ‘A collective death has an air of festivity’. The great Urdu poet, Ghalib, however, would have not subscribed to this notion …

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Masculinity, media and madness

By thehighasia
March 18, 2020
in :  Feminism, Literature, Media, Pakistan, People, Showbiz, Slider, Society, Women
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By: Aziz Ali Dad   A study of the relationship of new media of communication and information technology with social change in the particular context of Pakistan reveals a different pattern of transformation. Instead of creating a rupture in the continuity of cultural ethos and traditional outlook, electronic media in our country buttresses prevalent biases and irrational mindset of the …

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Art’s relationship with power

By thehighasia
March 15, 2020
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  by Harris Khalique | | It is indeed a matter of profound privilege and great pleasure to deliver this speech at the closing ceremony of the 11th Karachi Literature Festival. Particularly, because this city by the sea is my birthplace and although I have not been living here for long, “to my soul/ the streets anywhere are the streets …

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Kazakh, Kyrgyz nomads under Soviet rule

By thehighasia
March 12, 2020
in :  Archives, Central Asia, Features, High Asia Region, History, Literature, People, Slider, World
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In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the experiences of Kazakh and Kyrgyz nomads in the NEP (New Economic Policy) period and demonstrates the Soviet state’s treatment of nomads to be far complex and pragmatic. He shows how Soviet policy was informed by both an anti-colonial spirit and …

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Frida Kahlo was a captivating subject for photographers

By thehighasia
March 5, 2020
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The artist took photography as seriously as painting By Celia Stahr Frida Kahlo, like her father, used photographic images—often with written words accompanying them—much the way she used painted images: as a repository for her profound and sincere emotions and ideas. When Frida was in San Francisco she continued this photographic tradition. The calculated image she projected for the camera was intended …

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Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy

By thehighasia
February 27, 2020
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Abhrajyoti Chakraborty on a giant of the Bengali renaissance   When Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, crowds gathered outside his ancestral mansion in Calcutta hoping to catch a last glimpse. As soon as the body was brought out of the house, everyone charged toward it at once. Hairs were plucked from his beard, wreaths tossed from buildings on the funeral …

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The graveyard talks back –I

By thehighasia
February 12, 2020
in :  Conflict, Democracy, extremism, Governance, Human Rights, India, Kashmir, Latest, Latest News, Law, Literature, Opinion, Parliament, People, Politics, Religion, South Asia
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Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India, December 16, 2019. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri Fiction in time of fake news. Below is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. We …

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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100 – II

By thehighasia
February 6, 2020
in :  Literature, Pakistan, People, Religion
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Raza Naeem on the modernism of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919 – 1978) It is often stated that a new age of European culture and civilization began from the 15th or 16th centuries – the famed Renaissance (Rebirth). Martin Luther’s Reformation was an outcry of the same but Muhammad Hasan Askari is very upset with both the Renaissance and the Reformation …

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