South Asia Citizens Web

Requesting participation in the planned event on 16 June 2015 at 6:30-7:30 pm at the Parliament chowk, in memory of, and to honour and pay tribute to the victims and survivors of the APS/Peshawar tragedy of 16 Dec.2014.

In his new book, Midnight’s Furies, Nisid Hajari explores the partition that created Pakistan as a separate state, the violence surrounding the partition and why those tensions persist to this day.

The RSS thrives on animosity. They would have been truly upset had Muslims not objected to compulsory yoga. Popular sovereignty has been perverted in South Asia. It refers not to the People but to the Emperor’s Moustache. The people may not define their nation - it is the Nation that defines the People. The people are seen as a biomass of zombies – hamara maal, as the sarsangchaalak once said. Our imperial metaphors symbolize the inner world of communalists. The RSS are no different from the maulanas they love to hate.

Democratic rhetoric, it seems, has become the favored language of anti-democratic politics.

Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity. XF constructs a feminism adapted to these realities: a feminism of unprecedented cunning, scale, and vision; a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the needs of every human, regardless of race, ability, economic standing, or geographical position. No more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique. Our future requires depetrification. XF is not a bid for revolution, but a wager on the long game of history, demanding imagination, dexterity and persistence.