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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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Re-thinking Brexit
BREXIT IS ESSENTIALLY the fantasy of the 'hard' right wing of the Tory Party, who wanted to 'get back control' of the UK's sovereignty...
A Message from Kashmir
Dear British Paharis
I speak to you through this medium as a brother from Indian Occupied Kashmir. I speak to you for our shared homeland,...
Identity DIS Podcasts
Google Search Results; "Mirpuris"
Twitter Search Results "Mirpuris"
IDENTITY CONUNDRUM
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?...
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...
‘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,...
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...
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...
A mere “label”
We are not "inbreds"
We are not "illiterate"
We are not "uneducated"
We are not "uncultured"
...
Our “Nawabs” of Britain
My Lords, “Rajas” and “Chaudhrys”
How you tire in your claims?
Born to “nobles” “lineages” high
your's is ‘nobility’ supremely entrenched!
Of past glories, “Jaghirs”,
of providence unchecked
You accept...
RACE MYTHS
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...
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...
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...
