September 2017
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Good on you Mahira Khan-Kapoor – now please stop playing the Virgin
Backing Mahira Khan’s right to date Ranbir Kapoor despite online abuse, the author asks her to stop playing the ‘Virgin in Distress’ in her dramas, arguing that Pakistani culture projects…
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Sushma Swaraj’s hard hitting speech
Links NDTV’s report on Sushma Swaraj’s UN speech (‘We made IITs, Pakistan made Lashkar’), and remarks that even a weak Hindustani speaker could follow most of it, wondering why the…
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When all you have is postcolonial theory everything is about the white man
Reacting to a piece on confronting white supremacy as a South Asian Christian, the author argues postcolonial theory flattens a richer story into one about the white man, citing the…
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Inter Services Public Relations; ISPR (Pakistan)
Hamid Hussain examines how the Pakistan Army manages its public narrative through Inter Services Public Relations, noting that conflicts between army and civilian institutions produce competing narratives, and recommends a…
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Review: The Hajj, by FE Peters
Reviews F. E. Peters’s history of the Hajj from its pre-Islamic origins to 1926, finding the discussion of how pre-Islamic pilgrimage rituals were modified and combined with the Umrah the…
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On the Rohingya issue
Points readers to his main-blog post on the Rohingya, arguing the press will overlook the deep historical facts as the issue enters the media spotlight.
