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Sholay at Fifty: A Cinema Of Enchantment
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 Indian cinema is best understood as anthropological.  In The Theory of Indian Cinema (1985), Roberge emphasised that Indian films should not be judged merely by…
POLITICS
The Story of Jan Bibi and Abdul Hameed’s Missing Son
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 across the Baloch students in the university. With their families, we set up a protest camp outside the press club. I kept posting updates on…
Philosophy POLITICS Reviews
At the Gates of Democracy: A study of “Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics”
Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan, Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics, Edited, introduced, and annotated by Maël Montévil, (Hurst Publishers, UK; Oxford University Press, USA), 2024.  In Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics, (hereon IPIR) Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan offer a meticulously reasoned and deeply disconcerting reassessment of India's socio-political…
Philosophy POLITICS
A User’s Guide to Western Moral Clarity
“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. Knopf, 1993), p. 331. Let us begin not with politics, but with a parable. On 13th October 2022, Josep Borrell, the European Union's chief diplomat,…
POLITICS
This is not a curse: On the Iranian people
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 States of America, have been unambiguous in their declaration of intent to strike and cause calamity upon the nuclear sites of Iran. It is certainly…
Philosophy POLITICS
In the Shadow of Sovereignty
“The world has turned its order upside down; Time has traded one fate for another.” — Ferdowsi, Shahnameh, ca. 1010 CE, trans. Dick Davis, Shahnameh:     The Persian Book of Kings (Penguin Classics, 2006) Vali Nasr's  Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History arrives not a moment too soon. With a nuclear…