Muslims against the Muslim League: Did You Know That Many Muslims Fought Against the Creation of Pakistan?
If you grew up in Pakistan, you were probably taught that the Pakistan Movement was a unified struggle, that all … Read more
colonial history
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama Summary Review
Did Britain Truly Offer Freedom, or Was It Just Another Form of Betrayal? Simon Schama’s ‘Rough Crossings’ Forces a Painful … Read more
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Powerful Story of Love Against All Odds
Desertion is a critically acclaimed novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Gurnah, the Nobel Prize … Read more
Arrow of God (1964): The Untold Truth About Ezeulu’s Rise and Fall in Achebe’s Masterpiece
Arrow of God, written by Chinua Achebe and published in 1964 by Heinemann as part of the African Writers Series, … Read more
The Colonial Lie: Deconstructing Kipling’s Manipulative The Eyes of Asia Narrative
In 1917, during the First World War, ordinary readers in Britain had little idea of how Indian soldiers—the backbone of … Read more