In June 2025, the Balochistan Provincial Assembly passed a controversial amendment to the anti-terrorism law, granting sweeping powers to law enforcement agencies. The amendment allows individuals to be detained without…
“Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers... Live the questions now.”…
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…
“Every empire, however grandiose, is a fragile construction, not unlike a literary text, subject to interpretation, rewriting, and even dismantling.”
—Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Alfred A.…
The destruction of the third world continues with the illegal and potentially genocidal attack on Iran through the American instrument of Israël. Both Israël, and its controllers, especially the United…
“The world has turned its order upside down; Time has traded one fate for another.” — Ferdowsi, Shahnameh, ca. 1010 CE, trans. Dick Davis, Shahnameh: …
India and Pakistan exchanged aircraft and missile fire under the cover of darkness. The short war, which followed the Pehelgam attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir, cast a long shadow—one under which…
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men.” — Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (1947)
Marcel…
“Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.”
— Ngũgĩ…
“I photograph to testify, not to preserve.”
- Sebastião Salgado, quoted in Lélia Wanick Salgado (ed.), Genesis
(Cologne: Taschen, 2013), 14.
It was Fall 2005, and I had made…
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