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Journeys to Democracy

Blog by Pakistani journalist & documentary filmmaker Beena Sarwar

http://beenasarwar.wordpress.com

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  • Commemorating Joint Independence Day together, India, Pakistan, citizens call for peace

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    14 August, by beenasarwar
    Wrote this piece yesterday, published in Aman Ki Asha, about the annual joint Independence Day Celebrations by Indians and Pakistanis. The Aman Dosti Yatra (Peace Friendship March) reached Amritsar from Delhi yesterday. Friends in Pakistan were prevented from going to the border but they held a (...)

  • Journalism and “the lives and aspirations of the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir”

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    12 August, by beenasarwar
    The largest people-to-people group in the region, the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy has since its formation in the mid-1990s been calling for India and Pakistan to see Kashmir not as a territorial dispute but as a matter of the lives and aspirations of the peoples of (...)

  • Badri Raina’s marvelous Professor Higgins poem (But the ‘Equality idea’ ain’t dead)

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    31 July, by beenasarwar
    Another marvelous poem by Badri Raina in Delhi, published in ZNet, referencing Prof. Henry Higgins’ famous line in the musical My Fair Lady based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. I will differ from Badri ji only to humbly offer that far from being dead, the ‘Equality idea’ is alive and kicking. (...)

  • Muna’s ordeal

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    2 July, by beenasarwar
    Found this old report I wrote about a young woman who miraculously survived horrific domestic violence, published in The News on Sunday, 18 January 2004. What has changed in Pakistan since I reported on it and what hasn’t? Posting it here as I couldn’t find it online. Beena Sarwar Imagine being (...)

  • Cricket World Cup and the spirit of South Asia – #SouthAsianUnion

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    16 June, by beenasarwar
    I wrote this piece published in The Wire 6 June 2019, Letter From a Pakistani to an Indian Friend: Can We Please Have a South Asian Union? — pegged on Eid at the time. Posting it here on the eve of the Cricket World Cup match between Pakistan and India in Manchester Sunday. As Admiral (...)

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