Journeys to Democracy

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• What Mastung blast survivors need now

             
  6 April, by beenasarwar
  My article for The News on Sunday, shared here with additional links, pix, and tweets: By Beena Sarwar Death, destruction, disaster are newsworthy for the mainstream media. What happens to the survivors and how they cope in the long-term are not. Sometimes when im alone I think that why did (...)

• The Southasian penumbra

     
  2 April, by beenasarwar
  My PERSONAL POLITICAL column in The News last week Beena Sarwar I was curious when my old friend, the Nepali journalist Kank Mani Dixit proposed the topic “To be Desi or Southasian” as the topic of a talk that another journalist friend, Aseem Chahbra from India, was setting up for him in New (...)

• “Art for art’s sake is fine, but with a social consciousness it’s even better” – Nandita Das

         
  23 March, by beenasarwar
  I met Nandita Das for the first time at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, 2004, introduced by our mutual friend, the activist Shabnam Hashmi, sister of the late Safdar Hashmi. Since then I have caught up with Nandita several times, most recently at Brown University in Providence where she (...)

• Afridi’s googly and CII’s no ball

    
  14 March, by beenasarwar
  Updated version of my PERSONAL POLITICAL column published in The News op-ed and TOI blogs on Friday Beena Sarwar Shahid Afridi’s googly lobbed at women’s cricket in Pakistan in an interview, dismissing women as just good cooks, went viral on social media over the past few days. And recently, the (...)

• Pakistani Women Hit Hurdles in Medical Profession

      
  9 March, by beenasarwar
  My report for Inter Press Service, March 8, 2014. Picked up by newspapers around the world – I like the headline Asia Times gave it: Women doctors say what ails Pakistan BOSTON, United States, Mar 8 2014 (IPS) - On one of her many visits to Pakistan recently, Sarah Peck, director of the (...)

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