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Qalandar Bux Memon

is a editor of Naked Punch Review.

14 articles published

The Birth of Necropolitics: How the Riyasat of Pakistan Governs Balochistan

Ask any Baloch, and they will tell you: governance here means "kill and dump." They’re not wrong. In academic language, this is called necropolitics - a mode of rule that governs through the power to decide who lives and who dies. Coined by Achille Mbembe, necropolitics refers to a form of sovereignty in which the…

ByQalandar Bux MemonJune 29, 20250Comments

The Lawyer vs the Oligarchy: An Interview with Ehsan Ali Advocate

Below we present a composite write up of three interviews with Ehsan Ali by Qalandar Bux Memon, Haider Ali, and Sonia Qadir. The interviews took place between 2015 and 2022. Comrade Ehsan Ali is a Marxist leader from Gilgit-Baltistan and member of Inqalabi Communist Party. He is the founder of Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Committee and…

ByQalandar Bux MemonMay 23, 20250Comments

ESHAN ALI AND THE GILGIT-BALTISTAN WHEAT MOVEMENT

‘Gandum Subsidy Tehreek’ (Wheat Subsidy Movement) stands as thelargest protest in the history of Gilgit Baltistan region. At its height, it spanned every area and involved hundreds of thousands of people — men, women, children, Shia, Sunni, Ismaili, Noorbakshi, Balti, Burusho, Wakhi, Yasini, Puniali, Astori, Shin, Pathan, Kashgari, Gujjar, Chilasi and Dareli. In Skardu city…

ByQalandar Bux MemonMay 16, 20250Comments

ART Fiction Poetry

To Contend With The Heart In Winter (For Sushi Anarkali)

It is strange to contend with the heart in winter to carry blood so visible to each passer-by, To bleed with memories of colour, To carry to friends choked tears verses, moments and now sumptuous pain To coil reprieves and apologies, To consider eulogy but to write laments, In winter it is hard to contend…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

ART Fiction Poetry Uncategorized

To Contend With The Heart In Winter (For Sushi Anarkali)

It is strange to contend with the heart in winter to carry blood so visible to each passer-by, To bleed with memories of colour, To carry to friends choked tears verses, moments and now sumptuous pain To coil reprieves and apologies, To consider eulogy but to write laments, In winter it is hard to contend…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Zahid Mayo: The Painter of the Subaltern.

REVIEW OF ZAHID MAYO EXHIBITION AT SANAT GALLERY, KARACHI. (to view images: click here) I see Zahid Mayo as an artist of the subaltern. He is not their spokesperson but he senses them and is able to register that sense on canvas. This is his, almost unique, success among contemporary artists. I recall in my first visit to Zahid's studio about four…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Poetry POLITICS

Ode to SOAS Occupation

The Space On the 6th of October at around 7 pm sixty students entered and occupied the Brunei Suite, which is on the ground floor of the Brunei gallery of SOAS, and thus began the SOAS occupation. The Suite is a rectangle space about 18 meters by 11 with a total area of around 170 square…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Poetry Uncategorized

Class Struggle

That for many – billions – life isn’t Either easy, a bed, a house furnished, or food in the stomach, it isn’t a laugh an orgasm or smiles its hard, like ground constantly, over centuries, pounded. its sick – like bills that pile up and up and up and up. It smells of unemployment and…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Teachers Assistants Striking Against Neo-Liberalism in Education: An Interview with Ayyaz Mallick

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you tell us what role Teaching Assistants play in the University of Toronto and York University? Ayyaz Mallick: Teaching Assistants (TAs) at both universities are the main point of contact between undergraduate students and the faculty. TAs perform a number of duties, such as running tutorials, marking papers and assignments, invigilating…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Notes on working class liberation and the Pakistani Left

In this brief note I want to argue that the organised left needs to incorporate and support the indigenous working class movement and leaders. Further that the leaders of the orgnaised left must, in large part, be drawn from the working class movements, rather than, from the bourgeois. By the working class I mean those who…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments