BTW, She thinks "trans people had important cultural positions under the mughals".. that they were enslaved and castrated first is of no consequence as long as high culture is being produced...
She also thinks that India is a RW fascist dictatorship, but Pakistan is "transgressive, progressive", etc etc... Her first example is a movie that has been banned in most of Pakistan. Another is an artist in the USA who sells art worth millions.
One minor irony in this farce is that Imran Khan regime was as corrupt, more incompetent. more nakedly pro-capitalist and resorted to more begging internationally than any previous regime.. but ex-ISPR interns worked hard on a very different narrative and are winning that war...
Even this whole narrative of "we switched to the opposite camp, so America is punishing us" is a farce, not bcz US is not interfering (they probably are, they always do) bcz no well thought out switch was in process.. IK making off the cuff nasim hijazi statements is NOT the same
If I did not have friends and family in Pakistan, I wud have the option of laughing 24/7 at this comedy. There are even Pakistani leftists whose "revolution may finally be here" module has been triggered by IK. Hilarious, if not so tragic..
For iqbal birthday.. A series of snapshots from professor Nauman Faizi's excellent book about iqbal's "reconstruction of religious thought in Islam" amazon.com/God-Science-Se…
OK, completely random thread. Led by some Googling into the Asiatic Journal, I have some interesting snippets from that journal.. Very interesting browsing for your quarantine days books.google.com/books?id=CihGA…
Expenditure of an English household in 1840s Calcutta..