Violent Deaths and Enforced Disappearances During the Counterinsurgency in Punjab, India by Ensaaf is a must-read.
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January 2009
Ultimately, we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what’s best for them. – Obama talks to the Muslim World. Yes We Can, President Hussein! Yes We Can. Those are our bombs, our money, our technology sustaining an apartheid, imperial state. The drone-strikes are huge news – esp. since Gilani stood on the Parliament [...]
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Ahmad Hasan Dani, the leading archeologist and historian of Indus Valley as well as other ancient sites has passed away. A notice of his life and career. Also, an interview with Omar Khan from 1998. A great loss.
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Pakistan in Peril by William Dalrymple is a review essay covering Ahmed Rashid’s Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Read it.
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Just a quick line to recommend that folks read the discussion thread on Birds of War [thanks Nostalgic and Aamir Ali]. I have been scouring the local press for the past week and the lines are hardening. Yesterday, India claimed to have shot two militants with Pakistani papers outside of New Delhi. The coverage for [...]
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He was a middle-aged man, balding, silver-dusted hair, a grey sweater, dark trousers. His belt buckle was, incongruently, the Texas pan-handle. He seemed to be walking intently, with long purposeful strides amid the chaos of the shopping center, his eyes fixed at some imaginary sign-post. Or perhaps it was a real sign, I honestly have [...]
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Folks, I will be in Lahore for the next couple of weeks. You can follow my adventures through immigration portals here. And look forward to lots of new fotos upon the return. Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter
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Below are the comments I gave at the Mumbai Panel, yesterday. I. Yesterday, at her Senate confirmation hearing, Senator Clinton faced a number of questions about Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her most detailed conversation was with Senator Kerry – who will head the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Kerry spoke about his trip to South [...]
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Sorry for the paucity of content here. Expect things to stay muted until Feb. For Chicagoland viewers, I will be on this panel on Wed. Hope you can make it. Wednesday, January 14, at 4:00 pm International House, Assembly Hall 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago 60637 4:00 pm: Introductory Remarks by Steven Wilkinson 4:15 pm: [...]
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I am pretty sure that the Jaipur Literary Festival is a mela that I need to be at. I can’t be, but please go and rub shoulders with the likes of the Rudolphs, Wendy, Dalrymple et. al. In fact, William Dalrymple & Namita Gokhale are the creative directors. The festival will be held from 21st [...]
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NAKED LUNCH: Blow daddy by Nadeem F. Paracha is exactly the scathingly brilliant satire that I needed this morning. You must read the whole thing. Oh, God. Son, go do your homework. What happened to that science project you were working on? It’s almost complete. Good boy. What are you making? A bomb. What?! A [...]
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As professional meetups go, AHA is less painful than COMDEX but slightly worse off, sartorially speaking (some of these sweaters – sheesh!). For the first time, in a long while, I attended panels and listened to scholars and thought about their words. My favorite panel was a Silver Jubilee retrospective of Guha’s Elementary Aspects of [...]
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