Journeys to Democracy

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• Farewell Saleem Asmi

                   
  11 November, by beenasarwar
  A quiet warrior slips into the night Saleem Asmi, Nov. 29, 1934 – Oct. 30, 2020 First published in The News on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Reposted here with more photos. By Beena Sarwar His old friend S. M. Shahid termed Saleem Asmi a ‘Marxist Sufi’ in his compilation of biographical essays, ‘Living (...)

• The outrage culture about rape masks a landscape of pervasive child abuse

      
  15 October, by beenasarwar
  Behind each case that causes what activist Farieha Aziz terms as “self-gratifying outrage” is the widespread phenomenon of child sexual abuse, enabled by the linked notions of rape, shame, honour, and silence, and the idea that women are not full (...)

• Reflections: Baba Bujha Singh, revolution, poetry, and democracy

         
  27 July, by beenasarwar
  Sharing below an informative, moving and insightful piece by friend Jaspal Singh in Cambridge commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Baba Bujha Singh’s extrajudicial murder in Punjab, India. The story is reflected in other instances of police brutality elsewhere too. And so is his comment on (...)

• Pakistan’s ‘best kept secret’ (not The Samosa)

      
  25 July, by beenasarwar
  On another level, the film also illuminates “a body of thought, a concept of society, an ecumenical vision and a long view that risks being erased by many forces in the contemporary world”

• Give peace a chance: Activists urge India, Pakistan, to step up for #SouthAsia

           
  15 July, by beenasarwar
  The Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) has begun a series of online discussions aimed at reclaiming the people’s narrative. The PIPFPD The page has several video excerpts from these and other discussions. Below reports on both discussions by Neel Kamal, published in (...)

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