Articles with tag: Identity
An Indian Abroad
Sangeeta Mahapatra Sep 14, 2009 interacts: 17While not being jingoistic, I realized that it is only in a foreign land does one realize the worth of one's identity.
Pakistan Crisis - Seven Problem, Seven Solutions
Khalid Sohail Aug 7, 2009 interacts: 129Pakistan is experiencing a major existential crisis. But crises are mixed blessings which can lead to regression or progression. They can cause a breakdown or become a fertile ground for a breakthrough.
The Arrival
Faisal Shahid Aug 3, 2009 interacts: 7He felt that the poison in his blood had begun to mix at a slower rate, gradually even slower a few moments later. The world around him seemed to begin to fade into grayness.
The State And Its' Wars
Feroz R Khan Jul 22, 2009 interacts: 54Pakistan is engaged in a series of debates arguing the role of constitutionalism; of independent judiciary; of free media and civil society’s responsibility, but not yet began to debate the role of the Pakistani military within Pakistan.
The Stranger
Nida Maqsud Apr 3, 2009 interacts: 73Once she made sure her bedroom door was shut and securely locked, she went about her recently cultivated routine of applying lotion to, and spraying foundation onto, her legs...
Self and Architecture
leenah Nasir Feb 13, 2009Open your doors, roll up your blinds. Let air, light and noise drop in. They mark life. After all, you do want your Taj Mahal to be something more than a cemetery!
In Search of Identity : Tribal Warriors
FM Shah Dec 14, 2008 interacts: 97We have to shed our colonial identity imposed on us and undertake a fresh challenge, an IDENTITY-altering venture that allow us to paint the happenings and experiences of our existence and our dreams.
I Am A Pakistani
Ayesha Khan Nov 29, 2008 interacts: 27(India, America) These are countries that I carry in my heart but do not carry their passports. I am a threat to the safety of their people. I am a threat to my friends.
Proud to be an Indian
Shantanu Dutta Nov 30, 2008 interacts: 4Like the memorial to the Unknown Soldier; we need a way to honor the unknown citizens of all hues – the ones who really make us proud to be Indian
Toward a Pakistani Media Strategy
Ethan Casey Aug 14, 2008 interacts: 10Being disgusted with the way things are is not a sufficient response, and the Pakistani community needs to take the lead in changing its own image.
The Tunnel
jehanzeb khan Jul 15, 2008 interacts: 2 We aren’t the people of these bright lights and we will never be, we’re people of the docks. A fish cant survive on land. Don’t you ever forget that.
Kashmir Experiencing Hyderabad
Raoof Mir Jul 25, 2008 interacts: 1In January every year all India industrial exhibition is held in Nampally, Hyderabad. Most of the businessmen taking part in the exhibition are from Srinagar.
Of Medical Students, Passports and Religous Tolerance
furkan ali Jul 14, 2008 interacts: 427Who am I to declare that Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Quadiani is an impostor nabi? Why on earth am I even being asked the question?
A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey
Murtaza Shibli Jul 7, 2008 interacts: 220It (Indian Muslim) happens to be my identity. And this book is about the identity question in large measure - my identity, the Pakistani identities.
Muslims in America
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jul 1, 2008 interacts: 289I am all for Muslim identity but frankly what I don’t get is the overbearing role dogma plays in every action of the Muslim community in America.
Life Long Commitment vs. Singledom
Kiran Farooque May 19, 2008 interacts: 36Marriage, I think, is highly overrated. Marriage being the perfect happily ever after and the solution to life’s problems is ‘just a myth we’ve been fed since childhood’
Book Review: Killer Tune by Dreda Say Mitchell
Arun Reginald Aug 24, 2007 interacts: 5What is race? Is it the colour of our skins, or the faith of an individual, or is it the rebel within?
Khuda Ke Liye
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jul 30, 2007 interacts: 237"In the Name of God", it is about us - the people of Pakistan warts and all.
The Indian American
sreelata menon Jun 5, 2007 interacts: 3A mixed up amalgam of diluted Indian traditions and strong western ideas, the Indian American appears to be a rootless, yet confident, brown entity aspiring to be something it is naturally not.
Secularism, Positive Communalism and the Pluralist State
Sangeeta Mahapatra May 20, 2007 interacts: 114What form of secularism works in a pluralist state? Is it the one that bases itself in inclusiveness or that which is premised on insularity of state from religion?
Skins On Sale
Amar Jaleel Apr 19, 2007 interacts: 9Adam, a scared man in his millennium, hesitantly entered the shop, and stood alienated from the buyers. He was wrapped in a white cotton sheet that made him conspicuous. He watched the sale of skins with curiosity.
Pakistan Quarters
Muhammad Tariq Mar 4, 2007 interacts: 24The name probably symbolized the fact that it gave shelter to the families of most of the government servants, keeping the administration of the newly formed nation running, Karachi being the capital then.
My People!
Ahmer Muzammil Feb 8, 2007 interacts: 94I am outraged because I care and I care because it’s my country and I care because it’s my people.
A Nation without an Identity
Mazhar Mazhar Feb 6, 2007 interacts: 21During the last few years the political tendency among Kashmiris gave heavy emphasis on religion. Whereas, the indigenous Kashmiri struggle when it started in 1989-1990 was provoked by the socio-economic factors and a growing sense of deprivation.
Why Assam to be Asom?
M B Qasmi Jan 25, 2007 interacts: 59In the early nineties BJP politically aired a new slogan—'Indianization of big cities' since old names, to them were, symbolic to either Mughals or British slavery. The idea later became cheaper for all political parties with much vote bank credits.
How do you Define a Citizen’s Identity?
Bhaskar Dasgupta Jun 26, 2006 interacts: 7In many countries around the world, being a citizen is driven by religion, one can change his religion to get citizenship or is forced to live a life of shadows and hiding just to have any chance of being a citizen, as well as have some form of self-ident
Why Do We Reject Our Past?
Abdullah Rehman May 1, 2006 interacts: 207I agree with the notion that I was a member of Indic-civilization for 5000 years, Muslim for around 1000 and Pakistani for 60. I wish our leaders would give us the chance to appreciate and accept all of these great periods as our national identity
Children of Guest Workers
Rezwan Bajwa Nov 19, 2005 interacts: 14There exists a strong resentment amongst the immigrant youth against the German system; I see a highly polarised society
Changing Radio Stations
Yasser Latif Hamdani Nov 16, 2005 interacts: 49Did he, a mere clerk, teach me a lesson- an Amrika returned Pakistani who knows all- a lesson in equality?
August 2003
Aruna Rangarajan Oct 24, 2005 interacts: 110Eventually I learnt to leave my Kraft cheese at home, stop talking about Luke Perry, and dress up to look poorer.
Nobody’s World
Mehwesh Rehman Oct 16, 2005 interacts: 4Before death claimed him, he had finally become a nobody, a nobody who was owned by no one and who belonged nowhere. This feel of a nobody that he had seen on the face of that man on that footpath had given him his peace.
The Case for American Muslim Identity
Abdul Arif Aug 18, 2005 interacts: 40In some cases, having a birthday party at the local community center is seen as 'haraam' simply because the concept of birthday party at the time of Prophet was unknown
Is Secular India really Secular and Islamic Pakistan really Islamic?
Dawood Mamoon Aug 5, 2005 interacts: 164Revisiting the History through the words of a Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen
Losing My Religion
Nandita K Baig Aug 3, 2005 interacts: 215When my son, aged 6, shortly after 9/11, comes to me and gingerly asks me – Mama, am I a Muslim? I am stumped. And immediately begin telling him he is ¾ Hindu and ¼ Muslim. That’s once again, my own insecurity about the world we live in.
The Alternative Muslim Identity
Zehra Rizvi Jun 19, 2005 interacts: 260We are not planning on going back home someday. We are home!
Soapbox Sania
Farzana Versey Apr 25, 2005 interacts: 434Is Sania Mirza changing the impression people have of Muslims? She is doing far worse than all the veiled women put together with her hypocrisy; she makes it appear that the on-court clothes she wears is due to compulsions so god will forgive her
Born Again
B Waraich Feb 2, 2005 interacts: 8The rabid religiousness was infectious. It didn’t affect me though. I was more concerned with the weight of the knot of hair on my head and my asthma. I wanted to be born again, leave the knot of hair behind, shave off the hair on my face, leave my
Branding Nations -- II
Yahya Jamilulhaq Jan 4, 2005 interacts: 23To achieve the aim of creating a positive Pakistani Brand there is need for a dynamic agency that can conceive, coordinate and monitor the brand building effort at the national and international level between all the role-players.
Branding Nations
Yahya Jamilulhaq Dec 22, 2004 interacts: 48A country’s image is its ‘brand’ and building an image is like building a brand. No country or society is perfect. What differentiates nations is the perception about them and the quality of their ‘brand’.
Proud to be a Pakistani?
Ahmed Sadozai Dec 8, 2004 interacts: 258Our leaders sitting in their big houses, driving their big cars...do not seem to bother as to what the future holds for ambitious students like myself who are made to stand at the end of the line at every job opportunity around the world because of the kn
Refugee for Life?
Syed Ali Aug 17, 2004 interacts: 84In any case, no failure will stop me to state that I am not a Muhajir or a refugee. This is my land as much as any one else born on it.
Indian Womb, Pakistani Soil
Farzana Versey Aug 9, 2004 interacts: 132Dr. Hafsa Khan is flaunting her son as a Pakistani. If she is deported will she forgo the child? Would that child be recognised as a Pakistani? Would her husband want that child? Would she then have the right to claim him to be an Indian?
On Issues of Identity and Friendship
Laila Abedi Mar 30, 2004 interacts: 25I wanted to find my own way without culture and religion dictating the way to me. I wanted to find out how other people perceive me without my pakistani-muslim label showing.
A New Identity
A Shiraz Mar 6, 2004 interacts: 45You were not born Muslims or Christians or Jews. You were born human beings. They uttered the religious creed in your ear and mutilated your genitals and asked you to ignore your passport and assassinate the leaders of your country and obey religious men
Restructuring Identity
Mariam Durrani Feb 24, 2004 interacts: 106For the past twenty-three years, the meaning of my identity has eluded me. As a Pakistani-born girl brought up in Germany by an American Army community, I constantly questioned myself: am I more Pakistani or American? Can I preserve an Eastern culture in
Letter to an American Muslim
Ali A Minai Jan 26, 2004 interacts: 224Now you are as American as the Poles who came to work like slaves in the steel mills of Pittsburgh, the Irish who escaped persecution in their homeland to inhabit ghettoes in Boston and Philadelphia … Now it is your turn to do what it takes to arriv
False Alarm
Ahmad Bilal Jan 26, 2004 interacts: 25This true story is about how terrorism, coupled with an odd coincidence has affected my life.
Pakistan under its Ethnic Shadows
Godot Nov 17, 2003 interacts: 151Unless one can sufficiently and satisfactorily answer the question “What does Pakistan mean (Pakistan ka mutlab kya)” in the affirmation of a nationhood, the desirability of a “Pakistan” as a viable entity will remain questionable
Searching for Identity in Our Little Corner
Salman Hameed Aug 12, 2003 interacts: 19Where is our Solar system located? What is our identity, no matter how inconsequential, with respect to the vast cosmic ocean?
The Realm
Quinton Zondervan Jun 23, 2003 interacts: 3I am a self. That’s the only way to describe what I am. I used to inhabit a human body a long time ago. More precisely, a human nervous system
For Better or Worse
Sheharyar Malhi Jun 7, 2003 interacts: 78Compromise is the key to a successful marriage but what happens when neither party is willing to do that?
Living Through War
Aisha Sarwari Mar 31, 2003 interacts: 19if we were less advanced a civilization these days of war would have been easier
The Visitor
Quinton Zondervan Mar 28, 2003 interacts: 7If aliens came to Earth, why would they come, and how?
Why I Am Not A Muslim?
Ameer Afraid Dec 23, 2002 interacts: 61Life is spent in the fastidious guarding of a few empty possessions that sit around like a congregation of useless whores
The Myth of Autonomy
Mahim Maher Jul 25, 2002 interacts: 83The bomb blast had blown off many leaves from roadside trees.
Search for Identity -1, Saeed Anjum’s Short Stories
Saadat Saeed Jul 25, 2002 interacts: 17The day you kill me.
in my pocket you will find
a ticket to Loveland.
Kashmir Fatigue
Ajay Raina Jun 17, 2002 interacts: 705I still have a home there and I am looking forward to my permanent return
From Across The Border
Irfan Muzaffar Mar 14, 2002 interacts: 65full of the likes of us who grow up in an ideology laden environments
A 24 Minute Journey Between Paddington and Slough
Asif Iqbal Jan 23, 2002 interacts: 35simultaneously sending text messages to irate wife’s and lusting girlfriends
Reaction
Zehra Rizvi Dec 22, 2001 interacts: 128Terrorists Breeding In Your Gentrified Neighbourhood of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.
Mecca or Mohenjodaro?
RMS Azam May 6, 2000 interacts: 162A living religion is more eloquent than a dead civilization
Autobiography of a Forgotten Indian
Aakar Patel Nov 5, 1999 interacts: 118Our story is set in 13th century Delhi
The Lost One
Rabia Minhas Sep 8, 1999 interacts: 6She fell from the Himalayas... Only to land, lost in the Americas.
Lies of the Western ‘Science of Islam’
Parvez Manzoor May 1, 1999 interacts: 17Mass killing in the name of the state is legitimate and justified; sporadic acts of violence in the name of religion (read: Islam) are illicit and immoral
Discovering Ali Hasan
Rehan Rizvi Feb 18, 1999 interacts: 82Once upon a time, falling in love was not that complicated.
Growing up an American Muslim
Zehra Rizvi Feb 8, 1999 interacts: 139You’re related to Saddam aren’t ya?
Conversation with Mukul Kesavan
Rehan Ansari Nov 10, 1998 interacts: 13What was your Akbar S. Ahmed thinking casting Christopher Lee as Jinnah
A Fallen Man
Nathan Rabe Apr 1, 1998 interacts: 9An unexpected encounter on a cold winter’s morning in Minneapolis.
Disowning Altruism
Kazim Saeed Mar 28, 1998 interacts: 4Is any feeling for the interests and good of others compatible with the world-view forced on you by the 2-year entry program at Goldman Sachs
Love Means Never Having to Say You Are An Infidel!
Moe Chaudry Nov 26, 1997 interacts: 21Can you be a Muslim and marry a Jew? A closer look at inter-religious marriages.
The ABCD of Melting Pots
Moe Chaudry Nov 12, 1997 interacts: 7We swallowed the melting pot myth of America hook, line, and sinker … we ate spaghetti, chicken fried rice, and hot dogs and believed that these culinary delights originated in places like Boston, Wichita, and Phoenix.
Fifty Years of Pakistan Cricket: A Look Back
Abdul Hussain Aug 14, 1997 interacts: 2Take a long, relishing look back at Pakistan Cricket.
The Present Age
Kierkegaard Aug 12, 1997 interacts: 1A Revolutionary Age is an age of action; the present age is an age of advertisement, or an age of publicity: nothing happens, but there is instant publicity about it.
The Stop Sign
Kenyan Aug 12, 1997 interacts: 2If you have never seen this road sign, are you sure you are awake?
