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Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s latest book may not tread new ground for those who follow his column, but will provide a different...

Obras de mejora en el Auditorio de la Alameda y el Infanta Leonor El Ayuntamiento de Jaén destina 150.000 euros a la adaptación de ambos espacios escénicos y de la Casa de los Artistas a la normativa de seguridad J. M. L. Jaén Domingo, 4 julio 2021, 23:29 El Ayuntamiento de Jaén ha comenzado la reparación y adecuación progresiva a la normativa de seguridad de tres equipamientos municipales: el Auditorio de L...

2 people have watched this webinar. How Immersive Oral Histories Can Shape The Future of Neighborhoods April 14, 2021 As a neighborhood gentrifies, newcomers rarely explore or address the needs of long-time residents who have lived there for years. In the late ’60s, for example, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), a neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York City, existed in disarray. In 1967 most of the buildings in a 14-block radius were condemned, which resulted in the displ...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Photo courtesy of Buscada.  As a neighborhood gentrifies, newcomers rarely explore or address the needs of long-time residents who have lived there for years. In the late ’60s, for example, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), a neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York City, existed in disarray. In 1967 most of the buildings in a 14-block radius were condemned, which resulted in the displacement of low-income residents, most of whom were people of colo...

A writer profiles Karachi’s everyday citizens, highlighting their fears and hopes The past year has not been kind to Pakistan. The pandemic has crippled the country, leaving limited capacity to battle another contagion: bad PR. 2019 saw the launch of Sanam Maher’s A Woman Like Her and in 2020 we read Declan Walsh’s The Nine Lives of Pakistan. British freelance writer Samira Shackle’s newly released Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City completes a carnage trilogy, revealin...

Sarmila Bose,  (Hurst, 2011). The creation of Bangladesh was a missed opportunity for India to reverse the British partition of Bengal. It was an error of judgement due to India’s tendency to think in terms of how to damage Pakistan, rather than what might benefit India.  At the end of the 1971 war, Pakistan was in disarray and the Indian army was in control of the territory of East Pakistan. Had Indira Gandhi annexed it as the new state of East Bengal within the Union of India and offered ...

Show more In Karachi Vice, journalist Samira Shackle tracks the lives of a Karachi ambulance driver, street school teacher and crime reporter amongst others - and uses their story to map a history of different political groupings across the city and the recent decades. New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter from Kings College, London researches water shortages and dam building. Ejaz Haider is a journalist based in Lahore. They share their views of Pakistan with Rana Mitter. Karach...