Bhagat Singh: for the deaf to hear - Part - II
Though it keeps resounding with "Inqilab Zindabad," the film does little to explain the slogan that Bhagat had raised with unprecedented vigour. The most politically important scene in the movie, when Bhagat is asked... A different kind of freedom and secularism
“I am a guest only for a few moments, my companions/ I am the lamp that burns before dawn and longs to be extinguished” ... Spare the ‘freedom fighter’
One of the most telling signs of our intellectual backwardness is our obsession with ‘great men’ of history. ‘Great men’ not as they really were, became and were becoming but as ossified stereotypes used both,...Jinnah in the time of the PPO
“In an age where the powers assumed by the state against its citizens... far exceed even the most gross abuses of the colonial system, Bhagat Singh’s example is singularly relevant…” Joya Chatterji . ....The soul's spokesman
The hunger strike started by Bhagat in Mianwali Jail became a saga of heroic resistance in the Lahore Central Jail against the racism of colonial authorities that imposed undignified labour on the native prisoners ...Punjab notes: Music: saying the unsaid
Music is a sign of life. One of the most significant sound based tools, humans invented, is musical instrument which constitutes a half-mark of human civilisation.,...Harking back : Original Lahore just 15 feet away
Which heritage do we keep on harping about? In this piece I will not discuss the heritage on the ground, but of the one that lies below the surface. We know of the great grammarians and mathematicians that Lahore produced ...Indian elections through Pakistani eyes
A Pakistani travels through India as the world’s biggest democracy votes in the national elections. Follow his journey to know what happens and all the people that he meets on the way...... Lahore’s Bradlaugh and Barkat Ali Islamia Halls
Although not in such a state of complete dilapidation as the Bradlaugh Hall, it is by no means in a shape that befittingly projects its centrality to the movement. We realised that encroachments . ...K.K. Aziz: Murder he wrote
K.K. Aziz is a well-known name among academics and students of history in Pakistan. Many young people in this country are thankful to him for liberating them from the stranglehold of the myopic and slanted. ...