Across South Asia, the difference between prejudice and collapse is not the existence of hate. Every society has it in varying shades. The difference is whether the majoritarian state internalizes hate against the ‘other’, whether FIRs get diluted, trials get delayed, mobs get garlanded and impunity driven violence against minorities becomes low-cost. When that happens, the poison is not outside the system. It becomes the system.
And perhaps this is precisely what many readers, particularly South Asian readers navigating fractured contemporary lives, have been missing without fully realising it: fiction willing to slow down long enough to notice the fragile, passing intimacies through which people continue surviving one another.
Thurman said that Tibet was not an individual nation-state question but something that goes far beyond that. “It is not about a people yearning for freedom from an invading state. It is about a very valuable society struggling to keep its centuries-old tradition of intellectual evolution alive.” He said that while he was hopeful that the problem would be resolved soon, “and during His Holiness’ lifetime,” it was hard to put a timeframe to it.
The perceived push from a political leadership that has roots in Gujarat, the split in the locally rooted Shiv Sena that was engineered, the resentment it brewed among ordinary citizens and the history of Maharashtra -- which was born on May 1, 1960 after a bitter struggle that split the erstwhile Bombay State into two distinct linguistic states of Maharashtra and Gujarat -- are all complex and contributory factors to the evolving political unrest in middle-class Mumbai.
Hundreds of people descended on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, and protested against the brutal killing of a dog. For the capital, accustomed to regular political demonstrations since last year, the protests this time were somewhat unusual
Late Pakistani ghazal legend Mehdi Hassan’s son has appealed for financial assistance for his kidney ailment saying the huge cost of the treatment was beyond his reach, Daily Times reported
Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Wednesday ended the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League matches against South Africa as the No.1 ranked ODI batsman in the world, overtaking Indian skipper Virat Kohli, according to a Dawn report
Pakistan cricket legends Zaheer Abbas, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have expressed their delight at their induction in the first-ever PCB Hall of Fame list, Daily Times reported
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday greeted people of India on the occasions of Chaitra Navratri, Ugadi and other festivals today and over the next few days
When Pinky Sapkota first saw popular Indian belly dancer Meher Malik performing in 2012, she was enchanted
A documentary on the 'world's loneliest elephant', Kaavan's journey from solitary confinement in Pakistan to a sanctuary in Cambodia, is going to be digitally released on April 22, according to a report in Dawn
Pakistan U-19 team’s tour to Bangladesh, slated to start from April 17, has been called off due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh which has extended a nationwide lockdown in the country, according to a Dawn report
Veteran Pakistani film and television actress Samina Ahmed is shooting for a Hollywood project in Thailand, according to her husband Manzar Sehbai.
While star cricketer Abdul Samad is all set to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, there are three more cricketers from Jammu and Kashmir who will be part of the tournament as net bowlers. Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, a secure bio-bubble is in place for the league and the franchisees have roped in domestic cricketers as net bowlers for their teams
Former Mrs. World Caroline Jurie was arrested by the Sri Lankan Police on Thursday morning for creating chaos at the Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant when she forcibly took away the crown of the winner, declared her ineligible and crowned the runner-up
After a COVID-19 induced season in the United Arab Emirates in the second half of 2020, the cash-rich Indian Premier League – now arguably one of the biggest sporting brands internationally – returns to its indigenous roots on Friday, albeit amidst a renewed surge of Covid pandemic and before empty stands for the second year in a row
Thousands of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Bhutan not only need early diagnosis and intervention, but require trained speech therapists, behavioral therapists, and other experts
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has recently stirred a controversy by stating English cricketer Moeen Ali would have worked for ISIS had he not played for his national team
FIFA, world football's governing body, on Wednesday suspended the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) citing third-party intervention, reported Dawn. The move came after a group of people forcibly removed the normalization committee, appointed by FIFA in the PFF
