Colonial mindsets
BRITISH Prime Minister Keir Starmer was recently accused of having a ‘colonial mindset’ by fellow lawmakers for declining to discuss slavery reparations in the Commonwealth Summit in Samoa. PM Starmer…
Wretched of the earth
IN his seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon paints a dismal picture of the Manichean world of colonial Algeria. In the suburbs, large boulevards run through neighbourhoods,…
Forgotten cinema
The World Bank has sounded the alarm on the ‘historic reversal’ of development for poor countries. Nearly half of the world’s least-developed countries are experiencing a widening income gap with…
A perpetual identity crisis: Part – I
Literary terms or concepts like ‘mimicry’ cannot be understood without some knowledge about colonialism and its impacts on developing countries, especially those in the Global South. Prominent Arab intellectual and…
FBR’s quest for reforms, modernisation
“We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the…
New colonialism
I am 72 years old and next April I will be 73. So, I have been aware of what’s going on for some 50 years. Part of this awareness is…
Sport as politics
IT is said that sports and politics do not mix, or, rather, should not mix. Over the past week, under the backdrop of the T20 Cricket World Cup, it has…
Restructuring the tax system — III
While the FBR under the present economic team has performed excellently under the adverse conditions and despite heavy financial toll of Covid-19, especially in the midst of deadly second wave,…
Out of Africa
What truly matters is not that an author of African origin has finally won the award [Nobel Prize] after the Academy’s neglect of Africa for nearly fifteen years. The last…
Danger lurks
THE decision of the New Zealand cricket team — and subsequently the England cricket team — to cancel their tours of Pakistan is naturally very disappointing for the country. While…
