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Friday, 15 April 2011 12:43 |
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 By Raza Rumi
There must be something terribly wrong with the state of Pakistan that in its largest province, state schools no longer recite the national anthem and are giving up on the Pakistani flag. Tragic, that such alarming reports flashed in the national newspapers and on the internet are a subject of little debate and introspection across the country. Either that nobody really cares as to what happens to the tribals in the southwest of Pakistan, or that there is soft censorship at play.
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Last Updated on Friday, 15 April 2011 12:50 |
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Thursday, 14 April 2011 17:08 |
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 By Rick Westhead
Elmo, the fuzzy red Sesame Street character who teaches youngsters to read, count and play nice in the sandbox, is about to get a new assignment: wresting young hearts and minds out of the grip of Pakistan's religious fundamentalists.
With a staggering $20 million in funding from the U.S. government, a theatre company in Lahore is preparing to produce a homegrown version of Sesame Street to air throughout the country, an effort organizers say will target the millions of children aged 5 to 9 in Pakistan who are not in school.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 April 2011 17:35 |
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Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:40 |
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By Fatin Abbas
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas argues that the uprisings that have erupted across north Africa and the Middle East in recent months attest to the visionary power of Fanon's work and to its enduring relevance.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 April 2011 17:04 |
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Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:57 |
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 By Sunder Katwala
Prime Minister David Cameron will give a major speech about immigration this morning. It has been heavily briefed to the media as a tough intervention, so is splashed in that fashion on the Telegraph (Cameron: immigration threatens our way of life) Daily Mail (Mass migration has divided our society and Guardian (Immigrants should speak English) front-pages, and reported in the Independent (PM talks tough) too.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 April 2011 11:09 |
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:14 |
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 By Vivek H Dehejia
If you could be transported back in time, whom would you rather have dinner with: Gandhi or Jinnah? The question struck me while I was reflecting on the recent controversy that’s erupted in India on the latest book on Gandhi and on similar controversies that have dogged books on Jinnah on both sides of the border in recent years. Was Gandhi gay? Should we care? Was Jinnah secular? Was Gandhi secular, for that matter? Did each do more harm than good to the countries they helped give birth to? These questions, once heretical, still politically dangerous, could be questions one could put to these great men over dinner, if the time travel gods of science fiction cooperated.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:20 |
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