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Zia Ahmed

I am a product of Karachi, aid corporate malfeasance for a living, and am addicted to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin.


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Articles by Zia Ahmed

Nostalgia, Inc.

Zia Ahmed Nov 10, 2005 interacts: 6 Views: 2264

Jaipur: where thakurs can get you bumped off for a variety of reasons.

Linguistic Imperialism

Zia Ahmed Oct 20, 2005 interacts: 310 Views: 26917

Ramadhan? I may not have fasted since I was sixteen, but I’m pretty sure that the month of big appetites and short tempers is called Ramzan.

Dark Knight of Multan

Zia Ahmed Oct 28, 2004 interacts: 5 Views: 2509

Buttmian doesn’t buy the facile argument that the terrorists aren’t Muslims because no Muslim would harm another.

The Rational Warrior

Zia Ahmed Sep 10, 2004 interacts: 28 Views: 3787

A Mukti Bahini guerilla who fought for Bangladeshi liberation in 1971 looks back at a time of madness

Miracle on 35th Street

Zia Ahmed Aug 8, 2004 interacts: 5 Views: 2843

A certified post-menopausal woman had just given birth to a piece-of-the-moon baby. Hallelujah.

Movie: Fahrenheit 9/11

Zia Ahmed Jul 22, 2004 interacts: 21 Views: 1596

“It`s so great,” said my dinner companion firmly, “that someone is finally speaking up for OUR side!”

Jaipur Dreams

Zia Ahmed Oct 27, 2003 interacts: 158 Views: 17945

If my father was an Indian until the sixties, what does that make me?

Our Racism

Zia Ahmed Apr 18, 2003 interacts: 51 Views: 7485

Of course, none of us are actually of Indian descent

One Day in The Life of a (legal) Alien

Zia Ahmed Feb 21, 2003 interacts: 60 Views: 5110

They’ll soon start doing this for everybody, you know

The Death of Patriotism

Zia Ahmed Sep 13, 2002 interacts: 31 Views: 4713

Conversations with Pakistanis

Dissing Ideologies

Zia Ahmed Jun 7, 2002 interacts: 460 Views: 38458

The slums of Bombay are indistinguishable from those of Karachi

A Cultural Revolution?

Zia Ahmed Mar 9, 2002 interacts: 135 Views: 12914

Folks, the cable-TV revolution has come to Pakistan!

Movie: Lumumba

Zia Ahmed Nov 22, 2001 interacts: 0 Views: 5623

it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations


Zia  Ahmed

Zia Ahmed

  • Articles on Chowk: 13
  • First article: Nov 22, 2001
  • Latest article: Nov 10, 2005
  • Times read on Chowk: 132164

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