Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan
Responding to Aliza Amin, Prateek Joshi questions the Musharraf-Mysticism alliance and defends Coke Studio.
The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan
Hassan Turi explores the contradiction between agricultural labour shortages and youth unemployment in rural Pakistan.
“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia
Colonial-era sedition laws used to criminalize dissent to protect imperial sovereignty. Now that “The People are sovereign” in independent India and Pakistan, why are they still being charged with sedition?
Zinda Hain Tulba! / The Students Live!
An energetic national student movement re-emerges in Pakistan.
Selling Sufism: Qawwali and Coke Studio in Pakistan
Is Pakistan’s Coke Studio promoting Sufism or trading in Sufism Inc.?
Dispatches from the Valley: Kashmiris mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday with Satyagraha
Two months into the aggravated occupation of Kashmir, how are Kashmiris faring? Sociologist Nandini Sundar and lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan report on their recent visit to the valley.
The Brown in Black Power: Militant South Asian Organizing in Post-War Britain
Militant South Asians refused to be “model minorities” and instead united with racialized communities to confront racism and capitalism in post-War Britain
Desi America United
Highlighting a rich legacy of desi organizing in America, Iman Sultan traces her journey with activists and organisers emerging in a new Left movement.
Remembering the Ghadar Party
Resonances of radical, anti-colonial struggle in our contemporary moment.
Indian Tech Workers in the US: Bourgeois Individualists, Saffron Trumpists, or Proletarian Insurgents?
From an organiser for Tech Workers Coalition, prospects for organising Indian tech workers in San Francisco’s Bay Area.
Firebranding the Frontier: The Women of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement
Pakistan’s military declared that their “time is up”, but the PTM will prevail – buoyed by its resilient women.
On Christchurch and Settler Violence
Reflections on how to read far-right terrorism today.