At the crossroads of Persianate, Arabic and South Asian thought, Pakistan has the chance to rebuild its own intellectual confidence.
By Mahrukh Batool

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Dealing With Macaulay's Last Victory In Pakistan The goal is not to descend into intellectual laziness or simple anti-Western sentiment, but to use this moment to carve out genuine, independent intellectual

Pakistan’s universities mastered Western theory, but neglected their own intellectual heritage. Is it time to reclaim forgotten traditions?
By Mahrukh Batool

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THE WEIGHT OF BEING MISREAD This letter grew out of a recent conversation with two white middle-class acquaintances who told me, with quiet confidence, that I “only write about race,” and that terms like “Black” or “women of col...

Being misread is its own kind of violence.
My new letter is up.

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