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Globalism and Entrepreneurs: The Incubators for Brutalism
The year 2024 was termed a “global election super cycle,” as over 70 countries held general or national elections. While the outcomes varied, what emerged as the defining feature of the elections was an accentuated form of demagoguery and corporatism. Efficiency, productivity, optimization, trade wars, and climate denialism – all for the sake of a select…
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For Whom the Door Remains Ever Open
The Land of Disappearances and Mass Graves  In Balochistan, loss is not always marked by funerals. Some families never get to bury their loved ones, never receive a body, never know what happened. Their pain remains in the unanswered calls, the uneaten meals, the empty spaces in gatherings, and the doors that are never closed,…
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Brutalism: The Next Liberal Order of the 21st Century
At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama pronounced, ‘what we may be witnessing [is] the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government’? What was predicted as the acme of civilizational development has instead turned into a perennial catastrophe for humanity,…
POLITICS
The Odyssey of “Nako” Mayar and his Family
I had heard of “Nako” (Uncle)  Mayar, who was looking for his missing son and to write his story I had to travel to the village Gilli in Tehsil Buleda. Buleda Tehsil is a peripheral region in an already peripheral province of Balochistan surrounded by mountains on all sides. It is located about 45 to…
POLITICS
The Ugly American Show
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.” —Henry Kissinger in William F. Buckley Jr.  United Nations Journal: A     Delegate's Odyssey (1974), pp 56–57. In the spring of 2008, a nation's intricate history was brought to the forefront in a televised spectacle: 'Great…
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The Classroom as a Battleground: Teachers as State-Builders
By Narendra Pachkhédé              "The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality”  — Mahmoud Darwish In the dusty classrooms of Gaza during the 1920s, an unassuming act of defiance unfolded—a quiet yet profound rebellion that spoke to the paradoxes of colonial rule, the audacity of educators, and the fragile scaffolding…
POLITICS Poetry
Temples of Memory, Monuments of Forgetting
There is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year.   —Arun Kolatkar, verse 22, Jejuri, 1976 Located in the ancient city of Ayodhya in northern India, the Ayodhya Temple, is one of the significant spiritual landmarks.  Revered as the birthplace of Lord Rama, a central figure in the Hindu…