All the past losses All the past hurts All the past murders All the past lies All gone Just like that. Welcome to Independence Day! Just like that We are told we are free. What if: our losses don’t stop; Our hurts deepen; More…
On Kho Identity of Chitral whether they are more Dardic, more Pamiri or mixed?
Arandu lies about a hundred kilometers due southwest from Chitral Town and is where our river flows into Afghanistan
Swat, Pakistan, year 2007. The Taliban partly deface the Jahanabad Buddha, a colossal sculpture (ca. 7th century CE), which corroborates a past of mosaic intertwined by empires, religions, and peoples.
If we can learn to identify how our paradise is being kept hostage by a dependence on colonial approaches to literacy and education, then, it is possible for us to gain independence from colonial powers by developing and using alternative…
The Nation and Marginal Imagination History is the cruelest of all the events in the annals of human civilization because it lives within us despite the fact that it occurred decades, centuries, or even millennia ago. Not only this, it…
On Graveyards in Dardistan By Uwe Topper Introductory Note The following account of special art and traditions conserved at graveyards of the Indus-Kohistan region had been written to be published in ‘Aspects of Tribal Life in South Asia,…
To free society from the clutches of draconian values and tribal mindset, it is indispensible to break the nexus of tribal chieftains, maliks, mullahs, mafia money and politicians.