Dear Che – A poem by K.G. Sankarapillai

A Poem by K.G. Sankarapillai Dear Che Dear Che, you came to our university campus in mid sixties with a comrade and a modernist…

On social justice and immigrants in America. (Part 1)

My talk on Social Justice and immigrants in America. I discuss the example of China. The Chinese diaspora emerged as a key driver for…

On social justice and immigrants in America

Raza Rumi speaks on social justice and the immigrants in America…

Mumkin, Raza Rumis analysis on the leaked OBL commission report

Raza Rumi says in wake of the OBL incident – it appears that the incumbent government wants a greater control and say in Pakistan’s…

Diplomatic duplicity

By C. CHRISTINE FAIR LAHORE — This much is clear about the latest convulsion in U.S.-Pakistan relations: an American man, operating under the name…

A constructed enemy?

Multiple subjectivities plague any ‘objective’ measurement of anti-American sentiments in Pakistan Since the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistani society has been…

Discovering Lucia Micarelli

My young friend JC is forever introducing me to happening stuff. Yesterday, I heard Lucia in her full form. What a talent. Hear a…

Fair and accurate journalism

A friend asks: “Are we going to see this article splattered all over the front pages of major American newspapers? I highly doubt it.…

Christian Fundamentalism, the Global Crusade and Muslims

Yoginder Sikand, the Indian analyst sent me this well written expose on problem that we all confront – of coping with fundamentalism. Now let…

Fukuyama defends his Neocon legacy…

This is a good review of After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukuyama. Khaled Ahmed, one of my favourite writers makes…

The China Threat

BOOK REVIEW: Investigating the China threat by Khaled Ahmed The fact that Globalisation has been allowed to sink to the level of a darwinist…