اردو | The Hazara sit-ins began as protests with broad potential, only to become ritualized under the undemocratic organization of the Quetta Yakjehti Council and Shia leadership.
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Posts Tagged ‘ issue 7 ’
Sit-ins with the Dead
Protests in Search of a Movement
اردو | There is no rights-for-shelter or housing movement in urban Pakistan like Brazil or India because conditions force katchi abadi dwellers often to work with land developers rather than against them.
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Islamabad’s Forgotten Villages
اردو | Two villages encircled by the capital’s naval complex fall outside the state’s security concerns. Reportage
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“We should be resettled there”: On the Limits of Humanitarianism
اردو | Humanitarianism without politics has helped maintain the conditions of risk that expose people to harm in the first place.
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Still Waters: Memory in Pakistani Cinema
اردو | Khamosh Pani and Ramchand Pakistani are the first films by a generation that did not directly experience Partition. They plumb memory and examine living with what comes after.
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Going to the Movies
اردو| Just sitting through a film creates its own social norms and that—more than the films that cinemas screen — may be what worries those who burn them down.
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The Cockroach & Other Stories | An interview with artist: Tazeen Qayyum
Featured artist Tazeen Qayyum speaks about the use of cockroaches, and other metaphors, in her work.
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