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...
Since the dawn of civilisation, ideas about demons and evil forces have occupied the human mind. It is this preoccupation with demonic forces that...
Asia encompasses diverse countries and regions – in terms of religion, culture, language, ethnicity and history. However, the region has remained...
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...
Edward Said was one of the seminal public intellectuals in the post-colonial period who gave a voice to forgotten voices and suppressed histories...
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...
Human society is different from biological organisms or animal kingdoms because the former cannot be explained through universal laws, whereas the...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor did not appear in a historical vacuum, but rather emerged from the womb of historical continuum. Building upon...
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....
Gilgit-Baltistan forms a single cultural unit because of its shared geography, historical memory and collective unconsciousness. The cohabitation...
The 20th century was unique because of the drastic changes and ruptures it witnessed in every sphere of life, including knowledge. It seems that...
The Ghizer district in Gilgit-Baltistan is in the local media’s limelight, and one of the most favourite topics for researchers nowadays is the...
Since October 2017, Gilgit-Baltistan has witnessed massive protests against the imposition of taxes in the region by the government of Pakistan. The...
The 140th birth anniversary of Allama Muhammed Iqbal saw many articles and essays being published in national dailies about the different facets of...
Ibne Insha in his famous book ‘Urdu ki aakhri kitab’ explained the state of affairs in Pakistan through the metaphor of a circle. He...
The Enlightenment was among the turning points in the history of thought that emancipated the mind from theological reason, teleology and the...
Gilgit-Baltistan has historically remained at the peripheries of the power centres of Central Asia and South Asia. This relative isolation enabled...
The culture of Gilgit-Baltistan has evolved over the centuries within a mental framework or worldview that is unique to the region. Likewise, the...
Sectarian differences were politicised in Gilgit-Baltistan for the first time in the election of the erstwhile Northern Areas Council in 1988. The...
An important development during General Ziaul Haq’s period was the opening of the Karakoram Highway in 1979. The route connects...
