Kashmiri craftsmanship 1845 (from col Henry Steinbach, employed by ranjit singh for 8 years) Ranjeet singh agrees to bury a faqir for 40 days..

ROFLMAO. That Guardian (and its readers) take this super elite bullshit as insightful commentary on Pakistan perfectly sums up their world. Mashallah.

Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan’s transgressive pop culture went global theguardian.com/culture/2022/d… 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...

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...

https://twitter.com/syedzainnajam/status/1513044043806162944

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

An interesting tidbit about the difference in honor culture between gorkhas and plains Indians (from general mitha's memoirs) Working with Americans.. (these were special forces officers setting up the ssg for Pakistan)

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..