'My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music' Vladimir Nabokov
Nov 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The censorship of Joyland is senseless. Pakistan is teeming with artists, filmmakers, writers and has a cultural richness and more importantly bravery that the world admires. A smart state would celebrate & promote this not silence and threaten it
South Korea rebuilt itself out of ruin by treating culture as an industry as valuable as automobiles. It bet on its culture and it’s been richly rewarded at home and in the world at large. I wish Pakistan had even the slightest sense of its MASSIVE soft power potential.