According to Iqbal, we need to transform ourselves individually so that we could participate in the life of our communal self. This includes changing our habits of thought through our uniform culture.
The uniform culture Read More »
A mention of Psycho Mansion
Anniversary: Ibn-e-Safi strikes again Read More »
I got an opportunity to deliver a talk at the University of Warwick on November 9, 2015. It was later repeated at St. Edmond’s Hall, Oxford, on November 15. The title was ‘Introducing Iqbal’. Since then I have received a request to upload the transcript. I offer here the gist of my presentation. As a
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References to Psycho Mansion and Rana Palace in an article in Dawn
Ibn-e-Safi makes a resounding return Read More »
This article was published in Dawn, The Review, sometime in April 2001. It was based on the postulate of Ayn Rand that the only fundamental alternative is non-existence or existence. Since then, I have become more mindful of the criticism Iqbal had offered on such a proposition (even before Rand had expressed it) in his
Naturalism and twentieth century literature Read More »
This article was published in Dawn, Young World, sometime in 2001. The ellipses (…) in the text do not mean omissions but rather they appear just like that in the original. An insertion that appears in square brackets is new addition for clarification. When I was seven years old my parents got worried because I
Books I will never forget Read More »