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Pakistan Punches Above Its Weight. Blame Aligarh.
A Lahore-born painter on TIME’s first art list, his partner’s Pakistani song past a billion views with nine-tenths of them watched abroad, and a country that produces far more than…
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Pakistan Has a Dosa and Nobody Told You
“We Saraiki people make dosa,” my Urdu teacher told me. “We have a name for it: chilla.” A rice batter spread on a tawa and eaten with winter saag, in…
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Tariq Ali on the Resistance..
Comrade Tariq Ali is apparently still alive and kicking and just posted this: That tweet reminded me of a press release I composed over 20 years ago in honor of…
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In Remembrance of Shaheed Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, Bir Uttam (My Cousin Nishat Bhai):
by Shawkat A Tribute to A Family of Freedom Fighters In 1971, my cousin Ashfaqus Samad (Nishat Bhai) was a student in the Statistics dept. of Dhaka University, having graduated…
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Open thread: Geopolitics and any other interesting news
Please use this thread for any fun conversations. Please do abide by basic courtesy towards one another. 1. Have folks been tracking the gold prices lately? I personally feel like…
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How Pakistan Became South Asia’s Reference Muslims
Partition cut one Muslim political world into three. One of the three took the language of Delhi and Lucknow and sold it back to its owners. Why Pakistanis became the…
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Shubh Ganesh Chaturthi
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How Pakistan Punjabified Lahnda and Urdufied Punjab
Pakistan will debate new provinces in October. The better question is what Punjab is. Grierson mapped a Lahnda continuum across its west; canals and Partition filled it with Punjabis, the…
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Wild Tamil Nadu: An ode to the Tamil Nadus rich biodiversity
I had the pleasure of watching Wild Tamil Nadu over the weekend. This one hour long documentary takes one on a journey throughout Tamil Nadu from the shola grasslands all…
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Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian Walk Into Delhi
Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian sat in one hall in Delhi this morning while an American fleet blockaded Iran’s coast. The ceasefire was written in Islamabad, the Houthis are shelling Riyadh’s…