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Aziz Ali Dad
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  • February 20, 2019

    From keywords to passwords

    Raymond Williams is an important figure in cultural history and the history of ideas. He was in Cambridge University in the 1930s, and joined the...

  • November 19, 2018

    A candle in the dark

    Since the dawn of civilisation, ideas about demons and evil forces have occupied the human mind. It is this preoccupation with demonic forces that...

  • October 31, 2018

    Truth and the media

    Asia encompasses diverse countries and regions – in terms of religion, culture, language, ethnicity and history. However, the region has remained...

  • October 15, 2018

    Memory and cultural psychiatry

    The writer is a fellow of Asia Leadership Fellow Program, Tokyo, Japan.T S Eliot in his poem ‘The Wasteland’ deals with the theme of memory and...

  • September 27, 2018

    Nomads of knowledge

    Edward Said was one of the seminal public intellectuals in the post-colonial period who gave a voice to forgotten voices and suppressed histories...

  • August 22, 2018

    The desert of the real

    The year 1991 is remembered for the disintegration of the Soviet Union; the end of the cold war; the Gulf War; and the triumph of the liberal...

  • June 13, 2018

    Hegemony and its malaise

    Human society is different from biological organisms or animal kingdoms because the former cannot be explained through universal laws, whereas the...

  • May 06, 2018

    Economic geology of CPEC: Part - II

    The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor did not appear in a historical vacuum, but rather emerged from the womb of historical continuum. Building upon...

  • May 05, 2018

    Economic geology of CPEC

    Like other parts of High Asia, the region of Gilgit-Baltistan has also served as a pivotal link between Central and South Asia for centuries....

  • March 19, 2018

    The struggle with suicide

    Gilgit-Baltistan forms a single cultural unit because of its shared geography, historical memory and collective unconsciousness. The cohabitation...