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Remembering Hamza Alavi: Interpreting Pakistan, changing the world

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4 days ago
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Raza Naeem’s tribute to Pakistan’s best-known Marxist, scholar, author and activist on his birth centenary marked on April 10. Stop all the clocks … let the mourners come.— W.H. Auden by Raza Naeem While the world-renowned Marxist sociologist does not need an introduction here in South Asia, my reflections here will chiefly consist of my memories of my lone meeting …

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Author praised for promoting mystic message of love, tolerance

By thehighasia
March 11, 2021
in :  Arts & Culture, Features, Literature, Pakistan, Slider, Society, South Asia
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By Tariq Siyal ISLAMABAD: Writers, academics and intellectuals of the twin cities praised the contribution of Khadim Hussain Soomro in promoting the message of love and harmony of mystics of Sindh. They described him an embodiment of Sufism. Renowned human rights defender and social worker Tahira Abdullah speaking at a literary event at the Pakistan Academy of Letters on Wednesday, …

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Sadequain’s drawing book published

By thehighasia
March 1, 2021
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The California-based Sadequain Foundation has published the 25th book on the 34th anniversary of the legendary artist, poet and intellectual. By Farman Ali The title cover of the new book From the Sketchbook of Sadequain. Credit: Dr Salman Ahmed Islamabad: A new book of drawings by Sadequain, an internationally-acclaimed and Pakistan’s most revered calligrapher, muralist, poet, intellectual has been published. …

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K2 expedition: strong winds force Sadpara, team to abort final push

By thehighasia
January 25, 2021
in :  Baltistan Division, Climbing, Features, Feminism, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Hindu Kush Ranges, Hunza, Karakoram Ranges, Latest, Latest News, Literature, Mountaineering, Pakistan, Slider, South Asia, Tourism, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, US, World
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Muhammad Ali Sadpara, his son Sajid Ali and Icelander John Snorri return back to Base Camp High Asia Herald Report Bad weather has forced the K2 winter expedition team to abort their final push to the top of the second highest mountain of the world. The trio climbers – John Snorri Sigurjonsson from Iceland, Muhammad Ali Sadpara and his son …

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State Sovereignty Within Borders and in the External Sphere

By thehighasia
September 4, 2020
in :  Features, History, India, Latest, Literature, Pakistan, Politics, Slider, South Asia
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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

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May 19, 2020
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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
in :  Arts & Culture, Features, Heritage, History, India, Latest, Literature, Media, Pakistan, People, Revolution, Slider, Society, World
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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
in :  Archives, Features, High Asia Region, History, Literature, People, Politics, Revolution, Slider, World
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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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Art’s relationship with power

By thehighasia
March 15, 2020
in :  Arts & Culture, History, Latest, Lifestyle, Literature, Pakistan, People, Politics, Slider, Society
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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
in :  Arts & Culture, Features, Feminism, History, Lifestyle, Literature, People, Revolution, Slider, Women, World
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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
in :  Archives, Arts & Culture, Features, India, Latest, Literature, Showbiz, Slider, Society
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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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