Dr Saulat Nagi
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
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The Point is Not to Surrender
“To be captured is beside the point,” Nazim Hikmet says, “the point is not to surrender.” But alas, we were not only captured, but we also surrendered meekly, for we chose a wrong battleground, a part of our homeland, and fought with our people. To our dismay, we met the destiny we had written with […] → Read More
Is it Kosher to Kill Palestinians?
“No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the Megaton bomb. It ends in the total menace, which organised mankind poses to organises men, in the epitome of discontinuity.” When Adorno wrote these lines, millions of Palestinians were undergoing ethnic cleansing by Irgun and Lehi. Half […] → Read More
Existential questions for Palestinians
Devastated, destroyed, disillusioned, and desolated by Zion-imperialism, the Palestinians are once again standing at the crossroads of history. Stranded in the political wilderness, ditched by the Arabs, forgotten by the ‘civilised’ West — the Palestinians need to reflect on the effectiveness of the arrows in their own armoury, which, unfortunately, are few and far between. […] → Read More
Palestine, thy name is valour — II
The British neglected the Palestinian bourgeoisie at the expense of Zionist entrepreneurs. ‘Pinhas Rutenberg [a Jewish entrepreneur] was given exclusive rights to use water in the north of the country and an electric company to provide electric supply to almost all Palestine and Transjordan’. The ownership of the Electric corporation was organised in such a […] → Read More
Palestine, thy name is valour
For Marx, Indian history is the history of invaders, it finds its parallel in the Palestinian history which is the history of expropriation, and accumulation of capital through dispossession of the periphery by the western capitalism. In the process it applied the logic of supply and demand to the indigenous population, ejecting its larger segment […] → Read More
Understanding the Indian farmers’ struggle in a historical perspective (Part I)
Not very long ago the world population was flirting with the seven-billion-mark – a majority, as Sartre says, “had the Word”, but very few among them snugged at the top “had the use for it”. The situation has since not changed much. The creators of the world – the workers and peasants – creating it […] → Read More
The world is not our oyster
“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him” Nietzsche says “has always gained a party in his favour, too”. The publication of the caricatures of the prophet of Islam has proved Nietzsche succinct. A magazine of a remote repute, a sinking ship or to be precise a cadaver on oxygen tent chose a method of […] → Read More
I cannot breathe. Can you?
The impregnable American capitalism is under the mounting strain of a mass uprising. The dawn of realisation has finally arrived. Democracy and commodity, the tools of capitalistic culture, are insufficient to gratify the needs of the masses. They have failed to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and are, hence, falling apart. The subalterns … → Read More
Only fools speak truth to power
‘Only fools speak truth to power’, Adorno says, should help this truth to find the consciousness of its reason or else it can be perished by the vulgar common sense. On May 1886, the workers of Chicago found the consciousness of the reason of their truth and broke free from the pitiless common-sense and bade … → Read More
A letter to the premier scorched by promises
“When gods want to punish us," Oscar Wilde said, "they answer our prayers." They did when a mass of lumpenproletariat crudely assisted by → Read More
Justice acquits but him that judges
The much-awaited but somewhat expected verdict was finally delivered. The Indian Supreme Court has sealed the fate of a demolished mosque named after a human being who was not a phantom but had a physical existence fully endorsed by history. The verdict reeks of political domination since it justifies forceful appropriation and orders to rebuild … → Read More
The missing humanity
“Is religion,” Herbert Marcuse inquired, “still possible after Auschwitz?” “Poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” added Adorno. Incidentally, both religion and poetry not only survived the catastrophe but shared their place with Auschwitz. In the infernal society in which humanity has to live every day, poetry alone became the voice of subversion. The dark, frozen shadows … → Read More
The unkoshered manna
The neo-liberal modern states are overtly one-dimensional. They do not pretend to be pro-people even when they lure the people to vote for them; promising to solve their problems. Their ruling classes barely leave the opportunity of insulting the intellect and hurting the ego of the masses. A recent example of this phenomenon occurred in … → Read More
The night of the generals
Based on the novel of Hans Hellmut Kirst, the movie comes alive with a fascinating display of acting by the artists of the yesteryear with rare talents. It takes the viewers to the fateful era of the Second World War where, in the Nazi-controlled Poland, a German general (Peter O’Toole) slays a prostitute, incidentally herself … → Read More
Egypt and pharaoh’s curse
“You shall read,” says Cosmus, the Duke of Florence,”we are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends”. “We”, Nietzsche adds,”should also respect the enemy in our friend”. From Julius Caesar to Mohamed Morsi, this important lesson of history has always eluded those in the position … → Read More
The orwellian democracy
Contrary to cricket, a game of glorious uncertainties, capitalist democracy is a display of inglorious calamities inflicted by the indoctrinated majority on its body politics, a wound that can prove lethal to the future of coming generations. The logic of a free choice -the choice of choosing between black and white -has often been questioned. … → Read More
The spice of spirituality
“When a nation is in confusion and disorder”, Laing says, “patriots are recognized” and when a nation is heading to an economic meltdown, the spirits and spirituality are called into action. “Men make their own history”, Marx suggests. “And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did … → Read More
Time for the monsters
“The crisis”, Gramsci says,”consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” It is time for the monsters. This stands true for not only Pakistan but for the entire world, which has been converted into an Auschwitz or … → Read More
Women thy heal yourself
Women under capitalism are not only the source of cheapest labor, but have become a socialized sexual object too. In an advertisement, it is hard to discern what is for sale, an inanimate object or a charming animated beauty, paid to promote it. ‘Physician thy heal yourself’, a Biblical phrase improvised by mercurial Nietzsche became … → Read More
Indo-Pak relations: time to be a dreamer?
Some forty seven years ago, John Lennon had his revelation, a personal apocalypse. It culminated in a delectable expression of musical art: a famous song having a title of ‘Imagine’ emerged whose message, cadences and nuances still vibrate in human memory and recall the long cherished dream, a desire of making the world free of … → Read More