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Pen and Politics: Resistance In Pakistan
[Hardback - 2021]
naazir mahmood
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Sub-category: Pakistan Studies
Additional Category: Political Science
Publisher: Vanguard Books Pakistan | ISBN: 9789694026473 | Pages: 358
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This impressive collection of short essays by Dr. Naazir Mahmood centers upon the theme of resistance to hegemonic domination. What resistance means, of course, depends upon the particular context. His canvas is super-sized, spanning continents and drawing examples as different as the Bhakti movement in India to the birth of Protestantism in Europe. But most of the book deals with forms of resistance on the Indian subcontinent about which, quite naturally, the author has the most to say and in some cases has intimate knowledge of. By excerpting particularly poignant parts of Urdu novels and short stories, the author brings before us the wealth of Urdu literature -both prose and poetry - created under the shadow of military rule. This deals with how West Pakistanis sneered at and trod upon Bengalis, the plight of Biharis who had fought for Pakistan but were abandoned, the resistance literature that Zia-ul-Haq s oppression gave birth to, how the Baloch have struggled for their rights under different governments, and so much more. There are well-deserved eulogies to those Pakistanis who have stood up to the powers-that-be and refused the ideological straitjacket. Among them are Aslam Azhar, Fahmida Riaz, Kishwar Naheed, and Sobho Gianchandani. The author s impressive breadth of reading and familiarity with left-wing politics is most evident here and therefore, in my opinion, this is perhaps the strongest part of this book. To question received wisdom is not in our culture or habit. But the author is unusual in having been born into a family that was different. A passion for reading and interactions with people from different parts of Pakistan has made the author different from most. Not everyone will be comfortable with his views. Some will question the author s patriotism but he knows how to answer them: patriotism is a farce if it does not involve loving all people, including the disabled, the transgender, and the other marginalized peoples. Patriotism cannot be built on hating others.

About the Author

NAAZIR MAHMOOD is an educationist by profession and a writer by passion. He has been contributing articles and essays to some of the leading English and Urdu newspapers such as Dawn, Jang, and The News. His topics range from history, international relations, and politics to religion, education, and literature. He was born in 1964 at Liaquat Abad (Lalu Khait), Karachi, and did his matric at Jamia Millia, Malir. , He moved on to study at the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University Moscow in the 1980s. He has been associated with education sector since 1990 when he started his first teaching job as an English language instructor in Karachi. He also studied at the University of Leeds and the University of Birmingham, UK, from where he did his PhD in education management in 2005. rHe has translated 12 books from English to Urdu including Stephen Hawkings bestseller A Brief History of Time as Waqt ka Safar and Dr Ayesha Siddiqa s Military Inc. as Khaki Company. Vanguard Books published his collection of essays in Urdu titled Pakistan: Mutabadil Tareekh (Alternative History of Pakistan) in 2020.

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