Stories by Kamran Asdar Ali
Dr K.M. Ashraf spent his life arguing that India’s Muslims and Hindus shared a future — and paid for it with exile, imprisonment and marginalisation from history.
Published 23 Feb, 2026 02:35pm
A scholar, a communist and an anti-colonial activist, Dr K.M. Ashraf spent his life arguing that India’s Muslims and Hindus shared a future.
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
One of the first female members of the Communist Party of India, a pioneer of the women’s movement in the Subcontinent and a
Published 24 Aug, 2025 05:44am
Do these protests across US and Europe signal a change in Western grassroots sentiment about Palestine and can they make a difference?
Updated 01 Apr, 2025 11:14pm
Why did Hamas attack Israel on October 7, a daring attack that precipitated the brutal ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza? Could
Published 03 Dec, 2023 07:11am
Arif Hasan’s writings on land and housing are an example of engaged scholarship, an effort to find ways to create a future city...
Published 17 Apr, 2022 11:11am
On the third anniversary of her death, anthropoligist Kamran Asdar Ali recalls the work of Saba Mahmood, a provocative and...
Updated 07 Mar, 2021 01:39pm
Bani Abidi’s retrospective in Berlin pays homage to resilience and defiance in the face of subordination
Published 01 Sep, 2019 07:27am
The Englishwoman who became an inalienable part of Pakistan’s leftist gatherings and, indeed, of the country’s history
Published 11 Aug, 2019 07:06am
The zealous pursuit of power by the major political parties of Pakistan has obscured their moral fulcrums. In the face
Updated 22 Jul, 2018 10:21am
Rakhshanda Jalil’s translation of Intizar Husain’s Aagey Samandar Hai does complete justice to the original text
Published 03 Apr, 2016 07:15am
ON the morning of Oct 13, 1970 the body of the former CSP officer and famous poet, Syed Mustafa Zaidi, was found at...
Published 01 Dec, 2014 03:54pm
IN the autumn of 1992, while conducting field research in Egypt, I attended a talk at the American University in...
Published 29 Sep, 2014 04:42pm
THE passage of Muslim Personal Law in 1948, which gave women the right to inheritance under Shari’a, and that of...
Published 03 Aug, 2014 07:35am
In delivering a public lecture on Karachi cinema in the 1960s in London a few weeks ago, I was asked a question by...
Published 02 Jun, 2014 12:26am
In Karachi [we need] to imagine a potential space of cooperation and mutual support for people from different gender
Published 30 Mar, 2014 08:12am
The following is a column about the legacy of Hasan Nasir which is part of Jan 5th's special issue of Books & Authors.
Published 07 Jan, 2014 10:41am
The legacy of Hasan Nasir
Updated 05 Jan, 2014 03:18pm
From February 28 to March 6 of 1948, 632 delegates assembled in Calcutta for the second congress of the Communist...
Published 27 Oct, 2013 07:06am
By Kamran Asdar Ali
Updated 01 Sep, 2013 03:26pm
