Rethinking and re-imagining Sindh’s past – especially concerning the era starting from Mohenjodaro and ending in Muhammad bin Qasim’s arrival is crucial By Manan Ahmed Asif It is a fact not so easily known, thus rarely acknowledged, that the British colonial project in India at one moment turned into an excavation of India’s pasts. This […]
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When widespread vaccination was introduced there were objections – some justified, some not. By Patricia Fara Anti-vaccination protests are nothing new, although in the past they did have some justification. When Edward Jenner introduced smallpox inoculation at the end of the 18th century he was widely derided as yet another quack trying to make a […]
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“The establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine will be a blessing to the whole world.” By Lee Pollock On March 24, 1921 an overnight train from Cairo arrived in Gaza, a town populated by some 15,000 Arabs and fewer than a hundred Jews, located just inside the southwestern border of the newly created […]
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Mob violence enforces unwritten law in America. It had played a crucial role in enforcing this unwritten law, as “the mob did what the law could not be made to do.” A look at history suggests that in many ways, these events have a long tradition in this country. By Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson In response to […]
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