Archive for March, 2009
Revolutionary confetti
IT was quite a sight watching Laal ( a ‘revolutionary pop band’), being scrutinised by some three dozen young men and women on a TV channel this year on Pakistan Day.
The band is being aggressively promoted by the said TV channel — a channel which ever since the start of the Lawyers Movement in late [...]
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Tomato manifesto
“Laal is a socialist band.” This is what I was told by a teenager who saw
me buying their recently released album.
“What’s a socialist band?” I inquired.
My question surprised him. “You are NFP, aren’t you?” He asked.
“Yes … I am Nadeem.”
“Then you should know what I mean,” he said.
“No, I don’t,” I replied. “Do these guys [...]
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Of Myth & Malice
Prolific historian K.K. Aziz in his book, “The Murder of History in Pakistan,” is of the view that there has been a systematic campaign of disinformation on the issue that reached a peak under General Zia-ul-Haq.
Myths play an important role in the building of the socio-political narratives that various nation-states use to regulate the populace [...]
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