Journeys to Democracy

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• Tribute to a nationalistic hawk-turned-peacemonger with a SouthAsian vision

            
  28 March, by beenasarwar
  With the world in the grip of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s hard to find space for anything else. As horrors unfolded in country after country, exposing the hollowness behind military might, glittering capitalist facades, and exploitation, a gentle soul slipped into the hereafter at his (...)

• A conversation about coronavirus in USA and Pakistan

   
  24 March, by beenasarwar
  This afternoon I spoke to my hospitalist friend Dr Cyma Firdous while she was on a break. She told me her hospital in New Hampshire is preparing for a surge of coronavirus cases expected in a couple of weeks. They are feeling unprepared and under-equipped. If things are this bad in wealthy, (...)

• Farewell Dr Mubashir Hasan: A Nobel Peace Laureate Remembers His Old Friend

           
  21 March, by beenasarwar
  In the midst of coronavirus madness, March 14 brought the sad news of Dr Mubashir Hasan’s passing. Wrote this piece published in The Wire a few days back. Reproduced here with additional pix and links. Among the many wide circle of activists, politicians, intellectuals and scientists who mourn (...)

• Fragile Egos, Fragile States: COVID-19 Doesn’t Care

        
  20 March, by beenasarwar
  Two demonstrations involving Indians and Pakistanis in Massachusetts once again foregrounded the common issues that the people of the two countries, and elsewhere, face Wrote this piece published in The Wire some days back – feels like forever now, given the fast pace with which ‘coronamadness’ (...)

• RIP Dr Mubashir Hasan. The last public statement he endorsed was on India’s CAA along with other South Asian citizens

    
  14 March, by beenasarwar
  In December 2019, when I visited Dr Mubashir Hasan at his home in Lahore, I read out to him a Statement on India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act, drafted by a friend in Kathmandu. Dr Saab readily endorsed it, probably his last public comment (see below). He is the first person who talked to me (...)

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