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Faculty @cunyedu @cornellbpp
Affln:@tft_ @nayadaurpk @newwaveglobal_ @newwavehistory_
Prev: @parkindymedia @adb_hq @jinnahinstitute
Book:@delhibyheart

This Sunday I shall be in conversation with Profes This Sunday I shall be in conversation with Professor Ahsan Butt at @georgemasonu on #Iranwar, Pakistan’s global moment and the domestic economic and political challenges that are becoming even more complicated. Dr Ghazala Kazi is graciously hosting this event. If you are in DC/ VA please come. Do RSVP by sending a DM as space is limited and our host to plan for the (delicious home cooked) lunch requirements.
Will be moderating a discussion after the screenin Will be moderating a discussion after the screening of a powerful film The Uncondemned. We will be joined by Consoles Nishimwe, a global women’s rights advocate and survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
#spring almost in full #bloom— #neighborhood #harl #spring almost in full #bloom— #neighborhood #harlem 
#springishere
Hampshire College’s closure marks more than the en Hampshire College’s closure marks more than the end of a single institution. It signals the erosion of an entire pedagogical philosophy—one that privileged critical inquiry, interdisciplinary learning, and intellectual autonomy over credentialism and market logic. @hampshirecollege was never meant to be conventional. Its student-designed curricula and narrative evaluations challenged the commodification of education long before it became the norm.

Its demise must be situated within a broader American moment: a growing distrust of higher education, the narrowing of acceptable knowledge, and a sustained assault on universities as sites of critical thinking. From legislative crackdowns on curricula to the hollowing out of the humanities, we are witnessing not just financial strain but an ideological shift. Colleges are increasingly asked to justify themselves in purely economic terms—job pipelines rather than spaces of reflection, dissent, and imagination.

Hampshire’s struggle with enrollment and finances is real. But it is also symptomatic. When intellectual life is devalued, institutions built around it become vulnerable.

The harder question is whether this is cyclical or structural. There is a case to be made that this is not a passing phase. The convergence of political hostility, demographic shifts, and the marketization of education suggests something deeper: a reordering of what society expects from universities.

If so, Hampshire is not an exception. It is an early warning.
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep s “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
 
#PabloNeruda #quotegram #quotes
#Iftar in #NYC —#ramazan #food #Iftar in #NYC —#ramazan #food
Here’s the moment Iranian state TV, its anchor str Here’s the moment Iranian state TV, its anchor struggling to hold back tears, confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in U.S.–Israeli air strikes — a development with profound regional consequences.
“The world is full of people suffering from the ef “The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”
—#Jung #quote #quotesoftheday #quotestoliveby #carljung
#Blizzard of the decade. #newyorkcity #nyc #snow # #Blizzard of the decade. #newyorkcity #nyc #snow #snowstorm
#HappyValentinesDay Evergreen #Mughal #miniature #HappyValentinesDay 
Evergreen #Mughal #miniature  #Prince Dara Shikoh w/ wife Nadira Banu Begum 
#repost
My favorite video of #basant2026 — pure joy! My favorite video of #basant2026 — pure joy!
#Basant in Lahore — after nearly two decades — fee #Basant in Lahore — after nearly two decades — feels like the return of a city’s heartbeat.
For many of us, it’s not just a kite festival but a marker of Lahore’s syncretic, joyous cultural life that had faded under bans and anxieties.
Its revival reminds us how deeply people crave shared public celebration — colour, rooftops, music, and the simple freedom to welcome spring together.
Last week I stumbled upon an old hard drive filled Last week I stumbled upon an old hard drive filled with long-forgotten #photographs — small time capsules from another era. And, as #literature #festivals unfold simultaneously in Karachi and Islamabad this week, I found myself revisiting images from the very first (or perhaps second) @khi_isb_lit_fests where I had the pleasure of participating and moderating several panels.

What makes these #memories especially poignant is the absence now felt: Fahmida Riaz, Intizar Hussain, and Arfa Syeda — luminous minds who enriched those conversations — have all passed on over the past decade. The photographs capture not just events, but a moment in our #literary life that already feels historically distant, reminding me how cultural spaces endure even as the people who animate them inevitably change.
If you are in Lahore, don’t miss this session at L If you are in Lahore, don’t miss this session at LLF where Prof. Dr. Bashir Ahmad’s biography 
“From Partition to Pioneer” will be launched. 

📍 Hall 4 , Alhamra 
🗓 Sunday, 8th February 
⏰ 12 - 12:30 PM
Great job by the progeny Amna Nabeel Khan Faiza Bashir Asif Bashir
Looking closely at this canvas by @sumairtarar , I Looking closely at this canvas by @sumairtarar , I am struck by how it feels less like a painting and more like a fragment of memory — architectural, historical, and social. The faint dome, the eclipsed celestial form, and the solitary, leafless tree inhabit a landscape where Pakistan’s layered past endures, but in a subdued, almost spectral register.

There is an architect’s gaze at work — attentive to structure, proportion, and absence — alongside an acute awareness of how heritage in Pakistan often survives more in recollection than in care. The muted greys and weathered textures evoke dust, erosion, and time; this is not nostalgia, but a reflective melancholy about how our built histories fade even as they continue to shape who we are.

I feel deeply privileged that this work is now in my possession. It is a reminder that memory, architecture, and belonging are always negotiated — never fixed, never complete — and that art, at its best, becomes a custodian of what institutions so often fail to protect.

Thanks my dear Sumair! #art #artist #artphoto #artcollection
Thanks @iftikharsaira for the lovely #dinner celeb Thanks @iftikharsaira for the lovely #dinner celebrating the arrival of #2026. #homemade #saag and dishes cooked in haandis.  Also you got all our common friends together. ❤️❤️ #Lahorediaries
My January visit to @saeedbookbankofficial in Isla My January visit to @saeedbookbankofficial in Islamabad. Glad that they had copies of my books. In Lahore they have been sold out. What I really hope is that @delhibyheart gets published and is available for those who haven’t read it.
The revival of Lahore’s #Basant is a milestone. An The revival of Lahore’s #Basant is a milestone. An entire generation was robbed of this cultural marker. Hope LEAs agencies are vigilant & human lives are protected. 
But I am sad I won’t be there to witness and participate in Basant festivities. 

This video made my day. ❤️❤️👇🏽
At #ThinkFest2026, I met old friends and new faces At #ThinkFest2026, I met old friends and new faces alike—only a few were photographed, but each encounter is warmly cherished.
Last month, I spoke on my book “Being Pakistani” a Last month, I spoke on my book “Being Pakistani” at IDEAS. The discussion, led by @maryam.paro, engaged the text with analytical rigor and posed questions that prompted me to reconsider several arguments developed across the book’s discursive essays.

The audience contributed substantively, raising probing questions on identity, language, India–Pakistan binaries, and the complexities—indeed, the conceptual limits—of defining Pakistan’s “culture.”

I am grateful to @ideasalternatives and @being_bajwa for convening this conversation. The book has since sold out, and I hope it will be republished soon by a Pakistani publisher. #books #booktalk #Lahore #bookgram
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کُکھ دی قیدوں چُھٹ کے رویااج اک بُوٹا پُھٹ کے رویامیں تے ہس کے گھاٹے سہہ لےلُٹن والا لُٹ کے رویاکچی وستی لنگھن لگیاںراتیں بدل ٹُٹ کے رویالٹھے دی تھاں پاٹے لیرےچور قبر نوں پُٹ کے رویاگُھٹ گُھٹ کر کے اتھرو پیتےواج گلے وچ گُھٹ کے رویاتجمل کلیم ... See MoreSee Less
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Pakistan Food Culture, Recipes, Cuisines: Discussion with Niloferr Qazi and Haya Emaan

Connoisseurs of food Niloferr Afridi Qazi and Haya Emaan talk with Raza Rumi about the richness of Pakistani cuisine, its …

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Animating Times Square

This October, the electronic billboards at the maddening Times Square in New York City will display the creative prowess of …

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Remembering Parveen Shakir (1952-1994)

Parveen Shakir (1952-1994) has defined the sensibilities of several generations and beyond. At the relatively young age of 42 years, …

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Enduring Threads

Raza Rumi was fascinated by artist Aasim Akhtar’s unique curation of Pakistani textile heritage at the Rawalpindi NCA – Click …

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