Sadequain’s drawing book published
The California-based Sadequain Foundation has published the 25th book on the 34th anniversary of the legendary artist, poet and intellectual.
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Literature
Pedagogy of the Oppressed at fifty
The 50th anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed was released in 2018 from Bloomsbury, with commentary from Noam Chomsky and other notables. Also in 2018, Bloomsbury published a student guide to Freire’s text. This year, Bloomsbury marked the English language anniversary of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by publishing an anthology of critical perspectives on the book. This essay was first published on Jstor Daily, a digital magazine.
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State sovereignty and international law
by Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Contemporary states are territorial entities whom international law invests with sovereign rights over their recognized territory
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How capitalism drives cancel culture
Beware of splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. by Helen Lewis Tumbrels are rattling through the streets
Read MoreMubarak Wakhani: Yumgan’s Leonardo da Vinci
https://youtu.be/Z-k1BlHYpXc Yumgan Wakhani Museum is a treasure trove of artefacts, pottery, musical instruments and various objects invented by or remained
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Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
British colonial officer John Biddulph’s book is considered as one of the pioneering works in English that provided an insight to
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The Pamirian Languages: Between Past and Future
The case of the Shughni language by Farman Ali The Pamirian languages are spoken by people in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Gilgit-Baltistan
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Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle
There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their
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Remembering Antonio Gramsci
By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci died on April 27, 1937, after eleven years in fascist prisons. We remember his revolutionary life
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Art’s relationship with power
by Harris Khalique | | It is indeed a matter of profound privilege and great pleasure to deliver this
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Kazakh, Kyrgyz nomads under Soviet rule
In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the
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Frida Kahlo was a captivating subject for photographers
The artist took photography as seriously as painting By Celia Stahr Frida Kahlo, like her father, used photographic images—often with written words
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Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty on a giant of the Bengali renaissance When Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, crowds gathered outside his
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The graveyard talks back –I
Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100 – II
Raza Naeem on the modernism of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919 – 1978) It is often stated that a new age
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