Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• So much human suffering – and for what?

    
  1 February, by beenasarwar
  Sharing here a piece I wrote published in The Wire and later in Aman Ki Asha about a poor man from a tiny village on the India-Pakistan border who went missing in 2008. For nine years his family didn’t know where he was. But his government knew for four years before the family learnt from (...)

• As journalists around the world face growing threats, President Biden must lead by example

    
  29 January, by beenasarwar
  An oped that my fellow professor of journalism James McManus at Emerson College and I co-wrote recently, published in The Wire: As the newly-sworn in United States President Joseph Biden begins his tenure, he has a lot of salvaging to do from the wreckage left by his predecessor. One of the (...)

• Stop Hazara killings #BostonWithHazara

        
  9 January, by beenasarwar
  PERSONAL POLITICAL Even as media attention focused on the goings on at America’s capital where protestors shocked the world by storming the Capitol Building (nothing shocking for Pakistanis used to such attempts to subvert democracy) another drama — tragedy rather — unfolded in Quetta, Pakistan. (...)

• Merry Christmas… my dear

     
  24 December 2020, by beenasarwar
  There have been over 300,000 Covid-related deaths this year in the USA alone, and the numbers are still rising as many deniers refuse to take basic precautions like wearing masks. Asymptomatic carriers — no signs of illness — can be infected and infect others. The second wave is well under way. (...)

• Farewell Saleem Asmi

                   
  11 November 2020, 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 (...)

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