Genghis Khan and the Mongols
9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first international postal systems.He was tolerant of different religions.Some of his most trusted generals were former
CONVERSATION: Pakistan’s Days of Extracting Geopolitical Rent are Over. What Next?
IRSHAD SALIM — A recent article in Dawn opines that “Pakistan has immense latent capabilities…but its ruling elite must wake up to new realities –it has thrived on foreign largess…(but)
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Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty
Billy Anania at Art In America: In 1982, a fifty-four-year-old Andy Warhol visited China for the first and only time in his life. Wandering the streets of Beijing ten years
Toward Understanding New World Order, as the World Turns
Illustrations By Irshad Salim (May 2021 – Aug 2022):
The World Is Seeing How the Dollar Really Works
Adam Tooze in Foreign Policy: 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power that manifests itself in both overt and subtler forms. In the spring, the financial sanctions slapped on
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Third Alternatives: A Brief History Of Third Party Candidacies
Gentlemen, I’m putting the two of you on the hot seat with me. I want that third alternative!—Captain James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise, Stardate 3289.8 by Michael Liss at 3QuarksDaily:
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Why Modern Medicine Can’t Work Without Stories
Polly Morland in The Guardian: Most of us over the age of 30 can remember the family doctor we had when we were kids. They met us as babies and watched
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Mountains Hidden by Clouds: A Conversation with Anuradha Roy
Pankaj Mishra at Paris Review: I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the mid-nineties, when she was an editor at Oxford University Press and I had just published
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HARD TALK on Pakistani Pyrotechnic Team Winning in Moscow (Video)
IRSHAD SALIM — Pakistani pyrotechnic team won the top slot in a major competition on 14th August in Moscow. The (video below) captures their ten-minute performance. Watch after 2min 15
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Karachi: Malaysia Has Certified Rain as Halal!
IN KARACHI “water provision is “more lucrative than drugs”…competition for control of the city’s water includes water mafias and formal institutions…it is a source of intense economic and political competition.
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How Some People React With Statues (Pics)
Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi (Aug. 16, 2022)
Tropic of Cancer: Guangzhou Then and Now
THEN: Guangzhou, the port city in southern China, in the late 18th century. Because of its position at the meeting point of inland rivers and the South China sea, it