The outline scheme of Swaraj drafted on the Congress Khilafat Swaraj Party, prepared by Mr. C. R. Das, was laid before a meeting of leading member of the New Party at Bombay on January 29, 1923. There was no time to discuss it properly. Many of the members present (from almost all the larger Congress […]
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Review by Maheen A. Rashdi published in Dawn, Books & Authors, September 25, 2016. “Shafique’s narrative is addictive, and while you may pick up Waheed Murad: His Life and Our Times out of curiosity … the story that unfolds surpasses expectations. Whilst revealing diverse aspects of Waheed Murad’s personality, Shafique has opened up a new
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The philosophy of Iqbal can be explained in nine simple points. They can all be extracted from three research papers he presented respectively in 1908, 1909 and 1911. His later work, including the more well-known Reconstruction is further development on these nine points. The points are as following. Universal Islam and the modern West share
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Here is a prose translation of Chapter 4, Javid Nama (1932), the epic poem of Iqbal in Persian. The chapter presented here comprises the complete description of Marghdeen, the ideal world of Iqbal. As I would like to explain elsewhere, it is possible to read this chapter as an allegory about a great positive
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Going through the book English History 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor a few years ago, I was happily surprised to see that according to him, the years immediately following the First World War were happy times. This is contrary to the general belief today. “To judge from all leading writers, the barbarians were breaking
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On the morning of September 6, 1965, the people of Pakistan (including the present-day Bangladesh) learnt that their country was under attack because the Indian forces had crossed the international boundary near Lahore. For the next seventeen days, the media kept informing the nation that heavy losses were being inflicted on the enemy. When the
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In sync with the current of Iqbal’s thought was also the idea of ‘new democracy’, highlighted by such political thinkers as the American pioneer of management sciences, Mary Parker Follett and the great Bengali visionary Chittaranjan Das (C. R. Das). Follett denounced Western democracy as ‘old democracy’, which sustained itself through a dichotomy between the
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The Traditional Democracy’ is the second part of The New State (1918) by Mary Parker Follett and comprises of 6 chapters. Capsule summary of Part II, Chapters 16-21 Equality rests on two points of view: (a) I am equal to everyone else as one of the necessary members of the group; (b) each of these
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It seems that both the liberals and the conservatives in Pakistan have been missing the main point of the Quaid’s famous speech. You are free; you are free to go to your temples; you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may
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