Articles with tag: people
Uneven Democracy : The Cry from Chhattisgarh
Anand Patwardhan Nov 7, 2009 interacts: 19Our democracy is patchy. Our democracy is uneven. Even in our cities it is the experience of every ordinary citizen that law is not applied to everyone evenhandedly.
Pakistan India: Citizens Push for Peace
Beena Sarwar Jul 8, 2009 interacts: 73Mumbai-based veteran journalist Jatin Desai's proposal to ‘twin’ the press clubs of Karachi and Mumbai was positively received.
Can Pakistan unplug itself from the Matrix?
Vivek Balaraman Jul 4, 2009 interacts: 310What Pakistan urgently needs are more Morpheuses who will awaken the country. The good news is that there are already signs that the drug is wearing off.
The Sensors
Beej K Singh Jul 4, 2009 interacts: 4Dedicated to the memory of victims of the June 22, 2009 metro Red Line accident in the Washington, DC area.
Peace for People and People of Peace
Saeed Shiekh Jun 26, 2009 interacts: 12This is all I ask after paying my taxes. A safe haven for my home. Smiles on my children faces. Halal, hard earned food, and electricity.
Progression First, Philanthropy Later Or Vice Versa?
Absar Khan Jun 1, 2009 interacts: 2We can develop our country – our city sometime in near future as well, but presently, the unfortunate 3 million people should be the governments priority.
In My Veins, In My Blood
kashkin dabruski Apr 23, 2009 interacts: 1It’s our turn; we will not remain in fear
If challenge is to come, then embrace
We will, as failures not an option
YES, we can!
Muhammad Akhtar Apr 18, 2009 interacts: 8All great transformations are started by a small minority at a stage when there are skeptics dominating the optimists. We have to believe that there is no greater power than that of the people.
Young Turks’ Revolution for Pakistan
saeed qureshi Apr 10, 2009 interacts: 28They will emerge and born from the lower and middle ranks of the army. The civil society activists can agitate but cannot dislodge and force the reactionary forces to retreat.
Jihad for the Sake of Environment
Sairah Ali Mar 20, 2009 interacts: 1The Water Table is dying. Without constant cooperation now the Earth will begin to die bit by bit. Like the Vedanta Brahman, all Humanity is One. The Earth is One. The People are One.
Long March Poem
kashkin dabruski Mar 13, 2009 interacts: 1In all these years in our memory
In all these moments in our sight
Never that rapture or passion
Never there was a moment
To unite for purpose and oppression
To break this silence, to protest
For our rights, until now
Pakistan, Can You Hear Me?
Rakesh Mani Feb 24, 2009 interacts: 374Pakistanis come out on the streets to protest against the Taliban, against violence and against the murder of their own people. And for peace and dignity and friendship with their neighbors.
In memory of the Swat valley
Kamal Siddiqi Feb 9, 2009 interacts: 12One has to go no further than the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar to hear the tales of woe of the people of Swat and other parts of the NWFP.
Civil Society Pleads for Peace
Beena Sarwar Jan 17, 2009 interacts: 111As tensions between Pakistan and India continue to see-saw, citizens in both countries are stepping up efforts for peace through initiatives
The Other Side
Omer Aijazi Dec 20, 2008 interacts: 15There is not much value in trying to judge the world and maybe slightly more in trying to change it. But real power lies in understanding people around us and their motivations.
Do Not Wash This Blood; Do Not Wipe This Tear: Get Angry
Maloy K Dhar Dec 12, 2008 interacts: 6Change the system, change the governing tools, change the consitution, change the laws, change the criminal jurisprudendec system and dump the politicians of present variety.
The Way Out
Hussan Zia Nov 5, 2008 interacts: 33Much of the responsibility for the failure in Pakistan rests with the people themselves who have not played their part in protecting their rights.
The Man in the Mirror
Faysal Malik Oct 20, 2008 interacts: 7How naïve we are sitting in one part of the world watching someone like us getting hurt somewhere else and we don’t do anything about it thinking it is not going to happen to us.
Salt N Pepper
Amber Bokhari Sep 29, 2008 interacts: 18I asked him about his wife and children. He loved kids but didn't have any. His wife, he said, was a loving person. He'd often say, "I have gray hair but I'm not that old!"
Is this Amnesia or Dementia?
Tahir Javaid Aug 20, 2008 interacts: 84I am addressing this to myself, and to the Pakistani awam to which I belong. More than anything, I 'd like to talk to us about two words: Escape and Hope.
The Road To Misuraata
Prashant Bhatt Aug 6, 2008 interacts: 2The Italian Cemetery at Gargarish has stories of the families who lived here and made Tripoli their home. This is where the family of my friend Marino is buried.
Ahmedabad Blasts: Numbed Apathy and The Conspiracy Of Our Resilience
Lalit Vanshaj Jul 27, 2008 interacts: 276I lost my Chacha (father’s younger brother) in the Ahmedabad blasts yesterday. He was only 49. No, he had not participated in the post-Godhra riots of 2002.
Freud and Jung and Their Secret Affairs
Khalid Sohail Jun 16, 2008 interacts: 136Of all of Freud’s admirers and critics, the most complex, complicated and troubled relationship was of Carl Jung. He started as an admirer and ended as a critic.
Saqi Farooqi ... A Rebellious Poet
Khalid Sohail May 14, 2008 interacts: 22He likes to be in the centre of controversy and to achieve that he challenges every literary, social, religious, moral and sexual taboo that he comes across.
Spinning the Public Beating and the Mob Justice
Sindhyar Talpur Apr 8, 2008 interacts: 1You really need to be a bad administrator or power usurper that people are so full of hatred for you that they can’t help but beat you.
Elections and the Future Leaders of Pakistan
Abdullah Wiqar Feb 14, 2008 interacts: 2Future Leaders of Pakistan is an organization that is straining against the shackles of convention and tradition and is aiming to do things a little differently.
I Thought I Heard You Laughing
Kiran Farooque Feb 4, 2008 interacts: 12Unlike most people I know, I don't believe in love at first sight. But the world being as mad as it is, somehow manages to make you.
Fight Against The Emergeny Continues
Faris Kasim Feb 7, 2008 interacts: 51If we are stressed, if we are constantly worried, then I believe it is a sign of great optimism. The struggle for a better Pakistan has just begun.
A Cursed Nation
Imad Zafar Jan 3, 2008 interacts: 44What a sorrow, we dream of an ideal society a prosperous country but we want someone else to fight for this cause.
The Day Benazir Bhutto Died
Rakshanda Khan Dec 28, 2007 interacts: 4Violent mob hones in on banks, petrol stations, cars and unleashes its fury... In their self expression lies the true voice of the people and the tragedy that is Pakistan today.
The Missing Pakistanis
kashkin dabruski Dec 17, 2007 interacts: 3Where are those souls
Into wilderness, they disappeared
Like autumn leaves,
With no traces
Resist, resist, resist: ‘The gift of a crisis’
Beena Sarwar Nov 24, 2007 interacts: 197General Musharraf’s announcement of an ‘emergency’ on Nov 3 stunned many among this otherwise complacent generation -- enough to finally act upon their convictions.
Cholesterol Say Paak
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 129I usually get my news by driving around the city. I see a look of uncertainty on the faces of the people, but no great movement.
Johnny On The Street
Irfan Pakistani Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 3Should the lawyers be able to recapture the imagination of the nation and catalyze meaningful national resistance, the calculus shall change.
The Roving Stones
Haroon Malik Nov 3, 2007 interacts: 5My lords have announced they will cause revolutionary changes, changes that will cause a grass root level change. But how could they?
Old Wine, Still Older Bottles
Babar Mufti Sep 28, 2007 interacts: 7If the people of Pakistan don’t take to the streets, the politicians are themselves to blame. They have chosen the politics of convenience and non-agitation.
A Writer's People and earlier works of V.S. Naipaul
William Dalrymple Sep 19, 2007 interacts: 26Naipaul was once a penetrating and unpredictable literary critic, but here criticism has been reduced to a series of spikey provocations.
Book Dropper
Ibrahim M Khalil Aug 11, 2007 interacts: 9Nicholas Nassim Taleb says there are two ways to look at your bookshelf. The books you have read and consider yourself well read or...
Letter from Pakistan
imran ahmad Jun 26, 2007 interacts: 55My American friends, can you imagine your great country without justice for all? Can you live in country where justice is not available? Thanks to your Government who is supporting a military dictator in Pakistan, we cannot experience the same freedoms as
Monar Jomban (part 4 of 4)
Manali Chakrabarti Mar 28, 2007 interacts: 2They used to say ‘Allah will save us’ and a quarter of a century later I agree ‘only Allah can save us’ - the mess has gone beyond human intervention. I am old and my laughter is my tears too. (He suddenly looked around and said in
Honored
Chowk Staff Mar 28, 2007 interacts: 24Humanists honour psychiatrist and writer Dr. Khalid Sohail
Impressions about Iran
Muhammad Tariq Mar 26, 2007 interacts: 67The world has gone wrong somewhere in understanding them or stereotyping them with other Islamic fundamentalists like the Talibans.
A Nation Reborn
Shaheryar Akbar Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 71Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians and generals, they responded! They awoke! They said in one voice, “enough is enough!” I have ne
My People!
Ahmer Muzammil Feb 8, 2007 interacts: 94I am outraged because I care and I care because it’s my country and I care because it’s my people.
March for Peace
Beena Sarwar May 15, 2005 interacts: 22Indians and Pakistanis are allowed public access for cricket, but not if they are walking for peace
Let the People Meet
Beena Sarwar Jan 9, 2005 interacts: 68In Pakistan, the demand for Indian visas is as much as 1500 – per day – from around the country -
Benazir Bhutto Visits the Bay Area
Ras Siddiqui Oct 10, 2004 interacts: 48One does not have to agree with her political viewpoint. But it would be extremely unwise to ignore her in the Pakistan context.
India-Pakistan: Friends on Visa
Beena Sarwar Mar 13, 2004 interacts: 25When people from India and Pakistan meet, peace seems the most favoured option.
My Friend Pervez
Arvind Verma Feb 19, 2004 interacts: 41There is a small community of desis that includes some Sri Lankans, many Bangladeshis, two Nepalis, a larger presence from Pakistan and of course the diasphora from north to south, east and west of India. Obviously, there are Patels, Singhs and Reddys, as
From Silent Majority to Innocent Civilians
Salman A Chaudhry Nov 18, 2003 interacts: 8To me, it seems to be more of a silenced majority, one that does not speak, because it is denied the right to speak, and since it is too busy trying to survive, literally, it is less concerned with demanding the right to speak.
