Articles with tag: racism
Age of Obama: Beginning of the End of Racism
Akber Choudhry Sep 13, 2009 interacts: 3Followers of U.S. Politics have been scratching their heads over recent phenomena like the 'birther' movement, the silly 'tea parties', and the riveting signs and antics of right-wing demonstrators in the United States.
Black is Beautiful and Michelle Obama
Gajendra Singh Jan 28, 2009 interacts: 42If black would now become beautiful and fashionable. It is unlikely to create any change in the deeply ingrained fair colour obsession of India's higher castes.
Color-Blind Love
Feroz Qutabshahi Apr 3, 2008 interacts: 353Worldwide, interracial marriages are on the rise. However, 20 years ago, because of my religion, a German priest would not officiate our marriage nor would a Greek Orthodox priest.
Bobby & Jerry : Rise of a Coloured ‘son’ Retold
Anand Patwardhan Oct 31, 2007 interacts: 25Bobby has proved that he is more Christian than the Christians, more conservative than the conservatives, and as or more embedded in the Bush-Cheney establishment than the others.
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?
Militant Liberalism
ahmad hayat May 9, 2007 interacts: 387Do we have liberals amongst us that are willing to carry a Kalashnikov in the name of values of Egalitarianism and Social Justice?
The Princess and the Alley Cats
Farouq Taj Jan 19, 2007 interacts: 230Shilpa Shetty - A clash of cultures or simple racism?
The Canadian Dream: Never Fulfilled
Saima Shah Jan 4, 2007 interacts: 52As the digital divide keeps people away from information, the immigrant divide keeps foreign qualified professionals from their profession of choice.
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
Guilty of Gohana
Subhash Gatade Sep 13, 2005 interacts: 7Anybody can see that the ’spontaneous expression’ of anger of the upper castes against the dalits was led by an organised and experienced team of houseblasters.
The Dance of the Damned
Farzana Versey Sep 7, 2005 interacts: 190'We Dalits are like animals. The moment we are born we are on our own. There is no support system. We are constantly made aware that we are apart.'
Is Helen Fielding a Racist?
Bina Shah Dec 27, 2004 interacts: 21So what’s wrong with writing a novel where Al-Qaeda terrorists blow up a floating apartment block, kill Westerners, and yet are deeply attracted to the charms of the West, including women and alcohol? Isn’t that what Arabs do?
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
The Racist Within
Syed Ali Nov 13, 2003 interacts: 27You will hear oft-repeated statements such as “ The system is too corrupt and I cannot be a part of it.” In essence every time we utter such ignorant generalisations we aid that system to become more degraded, more decadent, atleast in our vie
Pervez Hoodbhoy-Paul Kurtz correspondence
Pervez Hoodbhoy Oct 13, 2003 interacts: 63In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Edward Said was slandered by Ibn Warraq, a man with pretensions to being a secular humanist and the author of several books.
The changing face of America
Aliya Anjum Oct 9, 2003 interacts: 184At lunch a steward asked me if the “Halal Meal” was mine? Without waiting for my answer he dumped the food on my table, took two giant leaps and disappeared to the next section of the airplane.
A Broken Promise
Zahir Janmohamed Sep 3, 2003 interacts: 150When Pakistan was created, its founder, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, famously declared, “You are free, free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion
The Karachi Airport Ayatollah
Haroon Moghul Sep 3, 2003 interacts: 35Pakistan will somehow and eventually explode the Earth
The Sad Reality of Arranged Marriages in South Asia
Aqdas Afzal Nov 2, 2002 interacts: 165Arranged Marriages are Racist and prevent Social Mobility
A Day with an Orthodox Rabbi
Hisham Zoubeir May 27, 1998 interacts: 2Hebrew for God willing also sounds like insha’allah.
