Posts Tagged ‘ violence ’

ز خم خوردہ ہوں ، شکست خوردہ نہیں

ادھر میں اونچی آوازوں سے ڈر جاتی ہوں پر تشدد فلموں سے دور رہتی ہوں اور مارا گیا کے بجائے نشانہ بنایا گیا لکھتی ہوں کیونکہ نشانہ بنایا جانا، مارے جانے سے مختلف ہے۔ مجھے کوئی نہیں مار سکتا۔ میں شکست خوردہ نہیں ہوں۔


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Beaten But Not Defeated | Feministaniat

By AK
May 2016
Beaten But Not Defeated | Feministaniat

I continue to flinch at loud noises, avoid violent films and substitute “hit” for “beaten” because being hit is not the same as being beaten. I am not beaten. I do not accept defeat.
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Enclosure/Erasure: Imran Channa and Partition

Mar 2016

Artist Imran Channa investigates the historical truth associated with the photograph, and how history itself remains malleable to ideology–despite the ostensibly stubborn veracity of photographic evidence. Issue 10
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Counter-Narrative to Violence: Hum Jo Tareek Rahon Mein Maare Gae | ART

On 23rd May, 2015, the Awami Art Collective launched a public art display at Bagh-e-Jinnah in Lahore to commemorate those civilians who have lost their lives in rampant communal violence and terrorism in Pakistan in the past thirty years.
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The MM Talpur Story: Part II | VOICES

In the second part of Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur's interview, he continues to recount the Baloch struggle–and remembers the disappearances of some of his closest friends and comrades.
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The MM Talpur Story: Part I | VOICES

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur tells the story of his experience in Balochistan as part of the Baloch struggle.
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Selective Mourning After Peshawar

Mar 2015

Scores of people have also died in various military operations in the last decade including earlier operations in North and South Waziristan, and Swat. So, why respond now?
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