“The Versailles settlement did not so much end the war as prolong it by other means.”
— Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt…
Nuremberg restages justice as heritage cinema—grand sets, solemn tones, clever repartee—yet in doing so, it reveals the deepest irony of accountability: law as theatre for a heritage conscience, hollow where…
Because language matters. Because it is in and through language that the world is shaped. Also, because language is in itself a theory of beginnings, new ways of seeing and…
Dear Dad: In Your Absence, Sorrow Lingers
My friend, I am jotting down these lines for you with the intention that I could write; you are unwritten, and with the…
From Rahbani’s aphorism to Mouawad’s absurd wedding, Lebanon’s stage insists on today when tomorrow never comes.
“There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps…
I do not have an extensive library but I students who visit my home from Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan or from FATA. Young intellectuals from these areas have long been enticing me…
“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.”
— Aimé Césaire. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press,…
Sholay at Fifty: A Cinema Of Enchantment
To understand why Sholay (1975) endures after fifty years, one must recall the late Jesuit scholar Father Gaston Roberge's pivotal insight that…
On the morning of 19 August 2025, as Karachi drowned under torrential rain, 50-year-old Sabzi stood by the doorway, her chadar wrapped tightly around her head. The water was rising…
In June 2022, during the third semester of my master’s at the University of Karachi, two of our fellow Baloch students were taken—enforcedly disappeared. The news spread like a wound…
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