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Stories by Ajmal Kamal
Who am I?
The first thing a person trying to answer of who they are, is supposed to come up with the name of his caste or tribe.
Prejudice engendering violence
Not only are villages spatially divided to impose social segregation on groups, cities force them to live in ghettos.
The battleground called language
I find study of euphemisms interesting as it tell tales from battleground of inclusion, exclusion, or caste politics.
Castes in Punjab
According to minority judgment of Supreme Court, Mukhtaran Mai was gang raped for her brother’s caste crime.
Patterns of change and resistance
Throughout ‘Muslim’ rule the masses who had converted were never considered a part of the Muslim community.
Resisting the stereotype
Middle caste Muslims struggled to attain social status compatible with their newly earned economic status.
Reading Manto in context
Manto's writing was enthusiastically welcomed by those readers who had an interest in the process of change.
Let us just deny it out of existence
No commentator mentions any longer heavy presence of roguish young men around & on rooftop of Lal Masjid - like Manto.
How to reform Hira Mandi
Before process of social transformation started, new professions created, everyone knew their place in tehzeeb.
Our internal censors
You have to somehow justify persecution of a religious group, blacking out their role in political history of country.
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