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ANALYSIS
Why Cinema Got Quiet: the new whisper-films and the politics of audibility.
From the new Punjabi parallel cinema to the Karachi shorts — a meditation on volume as ideology.
Mahnoor Khan22 May
Recently published
ANALYSIS
Arrangements: On Inherited Unfreedom in Pakistan.
Reading Thoreau, Alavi and Heidegger together on the state, the city, and the arrangements we never chose.
Syed M. Abubakar10 Aug
OPINION
The National Question, the Right of Self-Determination, and Socialist Politics.
On Lenin, Trotsky, and why the defence of self-determination is a prerequisite for working-class unity, not a rejection of it.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi3 Aug
IN DEPTH
Empowerment, Offshored.
Pakistan's digital boom relocates dependency rather than dissolving it.
Syed M. Abubakar13 Jul
VERSE
I Will Quit Tomorrow.
A poem on habit, grief, and the promises we postpone.
Iman Akhtar2 Jul
OPINION
Identity: Discovery Or Deceit.
On growing, changing, and the accusation of hypocrisy that follows.
Iman Akhtar28 Jun
ANALYSIS
Beyond Paper Leaks: The Indian Left Cannot Afford to Ignore the Student-led NEET Movement.
Why Marxists must engage with the NEET movement, and what it reveals about the crisis of Indian neoliberal capitalism.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi23 Jun
OPINION
A Field, Silent.
A witness account of a beating in a field, and the silence that made it unremarkable.
Hasan Raza Jafri22 Jun
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Opinion
Arguments, dissents, columns.
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The National Question, the Right of Self-Determination, and Socialist Politics.
Muhammad Raiyd Qazi
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A Field, Silent.
Hasan Raza Jafri
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Identity: Discovery Or Deceit.
Iman Akhtar
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The slow coup: how administrative capture became the new authoritarianism.
Bilal Lakhani · Islamabad
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Solar without the South: who actually owns the green transition?
Dr. Hassan Aziz
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Pop, prestige, and the long death of the middlebrow.
Zara Khurshid
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News
Dispatches, briefs, on-the-ground correspondence.
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The IMF after the IMF: a quiet revolution in conditional lending.
Hira Shah · Karachi
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A port without ships: what Gwadar is becoming.
Faraz Anwar · Gwadar
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Mapping South Asia's hard-right foundation networks.
Maryam Tanveer & Imran Daud
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Analysis
What just happened, what it means, and what to read against it.
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Arrangements: On Inherited Unfreedom in Pakistan.
Syed M. Abubakar
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The party form is dead. Long live the cadre.
Talha Cheema
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Reading Manto in the time of the algorithm.
Mehreen Ali
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Three new books on the rural — and one on the impossibility of writing them.
Sana Bukhari
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In Depth
Long-form features, interviews, and the symposium.
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Empowerment, Offshored
Syed M. Abubakar
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Eqbal Ahmad's last lecture, transcribed: on the unfinished project of reason.
Transcribed and annotated by H. Qureshi
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“Liberalism mistakes process for principle.” — A conversation with Ayesha Jalal.
Interviewed by the editors
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Eight thinkers respond: is there a left case for despair?
Symposium
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Verse
Poetry, in English and in translation.
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I Will Quit Tomorrow.
Iman Akhtar
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Five new poems.
On weather, departure, and the long quiet of an Islamabad winter.
Sara Sheikh
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Six poems from Dast-e Tah-e Sang.
From the Urdu of Faiz, in new English versions.
tr. Rabia Yousuf
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Three ghazals, after the manner of Ghalib.
Composed in English; the radif kept and the qafia loosened.
Hammad Sheikh
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Notes towards a theory of the courtyard.
A verse essay on architecture, weather, and the unwritten manners of looking up.
Mariam Aziz Khan