Entries for April 2007
postcard from islamabad
the cab driver was adamant. he was not going to take directions from the person on the other end of the mobile phone. we were on our way to see a female poet, a woman who had been at the forefront of advancing womens rights in Pakistan. the driver, an …
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postcard from karachi
life and legacy of Jinnah. its a strange feeling to return to the same place and feel like a different person. i am not just returning to one mauseleum of course, i am returning to what is i suppose the motherland. Once my family left Pakistan in the summer of …
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the american way of death
The first reports about the identity of the person responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech was that he was an Asian man. That meant that for a few hours I was steeling myself for the possibility that the killer was a Muslim. So when it was finally revealed that …
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the rising
An excellent piece in today’s Independent on Sunday about the rising relevance of Bruce Springsteen on music today. Really well written article and the cover image …
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a sort of homecoming
Its Saturday evening. This time next week I will somewhere be above the skies on my way to Pakistan. I am flying into Karachi and then travelling onto Islamabad and Lahore to make a documentary for Radio 4 on the life of Jinnah. It is, of course, an absolute privilege …
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