Education as humanisation
Too often our education debates are framed in narrow technocratic terms: budget percentages, enrollment figures, out-of-school numbers, as though statistics could name what is wrong. But a single day in…
Haunted states
THE commemoration a fortnight ago of the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s demise served as a reminder that the fascist dictatorship established in Spain in the late 1930s had endured…
Normalising murder
There is no end in sight for the massacre in Gaza. Nearly two years after the start of Al Aqsa Flood, the United Nations Human Rights Council has – finally…
Orientalism revisited
A glance at Pakistan’s academic landscape presents a rather discouraging picture. While hundreds, if not thousands, of research papers are published annually in journals produced by universities across the country,…
Why we must join the Hague Group
“For a colonised people the most essential value…is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity”.–Frantz Fanon, ‘The Wretched of the Earth’…
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…
