Month: August 2022

Genghis Khan and the Mongols

9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first…

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…

Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty

Billy Anania at Art In America: In 1982, a fifty-four-year-old Andy Warhol visited China for…

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…

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…

Why Modern Medicine Can’t Work Without Stories

Polly Morland in The Guardian: Most of us over the age of 30 can remember the…

Mountains Hidden by Clouds: A Conversation with Anuradha Roy

Pankaj Mishra at Paris Review: I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the…

HARD TALK on Pakistani Pyrotechnic Team Winning in Moscow (Video)

IRSHAD SALIM — Pakistani pyrotechnic team won the top slot in a major competition on…

Karachi: Malaysia Has Certified Rain as Halal!

IN KARACHI “water provision is “more lucrative than drugs”…competition for control of the city’s water…

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…