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The “Mirpuri” Villain!?
“al-Bretannia" - my country!
There comes a point in any community’s timeline for its members to stand up and be heard. And that time has...
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IDENTITY CONUNDRUM
Nation state fictions: Imagining the Past
A lot of us confuse our 'countries', and the technical term for what I'm describing is 'nation states', with ideas of historical continuity. We...
The Lonely Journeyman
The needle has struck, the hour has come,
and the open road unwinds.
With a heavy heart,
I place my soul’s keeping
into nature’s lair for the journey...
The Pahari language of ‘Azad’ Jammu & Kashmir
The Politics behind Linguistic Identities
Aside from popular conventions in how we would transliterate words from one language into another, no corresponding practise exists for...
A mere “label”
We are not "inbreds"
We are not "illiterate"
We are not "uneducated"
We are not "uncultured"
...
Gandhara, a ‘past’ worth celebrating
It’s okay to ‘maim’ my ‘name’ for I'm an inconsequential ‘thing’
You can place me on the shelves of Primark and Aldi
Mine is...
You don’t have to disown your people to “get ahead” in life
A message to the British-Pahari Youth of Azad Jammu Kashmir
Why do some of us lose our tongues in the face of social and political injustice?...
‘Hill Speak’ by Zaffar Kunial
There is no dictionary for my father’s language.
His dialect, for a start, is difficult to name.
Even this taxi driver, who talks it,...
RACE MYTHS
“Race” fallacy and social relationships
Steven Garner, author of "Racism, an Introduction" said,
"'Race' is a fiction that we turn into a social reality every day of our lives. It...
Born and Bred in the UK; the Immigrant Conundrum.
Over the past century, many Britons have had a fraught relationship with ethnic minorities, the lessor Britons if you like, aka imposter-type Britons, if...
A Letter to the “Race Puritans” of Great Britain
Dear Race Puritans
I was born and raised in England. I know of no ‘culture’ except the one I live and breath. Its seed may...
