Tag: Pakistan

• Palestine and Sports: Is the Ali of the 60s back?

  The Name is Muhammad Ali Mighty Whitey And imma whoop your ass, you hoity toity I’m for my blacks, my browns and my Chinese Who you bomb, maim and kill with glees And I will hold Hamas in condemnation, Only when you stop killing innocents And end your brutal occupation! (my take on what Ali…

  rrameez

  October 23, 2023

  History of Science

  afghan refugees, afghanistan, israel, Muhammad Ali, Pakistan, palestine

• CHOMSKY SAYS NO MEANINGFUL EVIDENCE OF COUP AGAINST IMRAN KHAN!

  

  The famed leftwing political activist says that using the threatening letter as evidence of a coup is “meaningless”! I have for long admired and followed Prof. Chomsky’s work. Among the people he has never met, I am probably one of the few with whom it was Prof. Chomsky who initiated an email correspondence! Well, technically.…

  rrameez

  April 21, 2022

  History of Science

  Chomsky, Imran Khan, Pakistan, PTI

• Hippocratic oath or Hypocritic oath

  I remember around 10 years back, a friend who is a doctor, went to an impoverished locality in Karachi with a team to vaccinate children against some disease(s). Their team was harassed by some ignorant and mostly illiterate people who felt that such vaccination campaigns are part of a “western conspiracy” to harm them. “Why…

  rrameez

  July 14, 2013

  Abuse of Science, Social Science

  Abbottabad, CIA, Hippocratic oath, Hypocritic oath, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, polio, St. Augustine

• Re-Modeling Iqbal: Why Iqbal is too important to be given up!

  

  Dr Muhammad Iqbal wrote one of the major national songs of India, has been declared the national poet of Pakistan, and served as one of the intellectual influences for Iran’s  revolutionaries. However, over the last few years, there has been an ever-growing allergy towards Iqbal among the liberal sections of Pakistan Iqbal is presently claimed…

  rrameez

  May 11, 2013

  Arts and Modeling

  9/11, British Empire, Faiz, Imperialism, Indian, Iqbal, Iran, Muhammad Iqbal, Mullah, Pakistan, Poetry, Religious Fanaticism, Sir Syed, Stalin

• Thrasymachus vs Socrates or: How I learned to stop worrying and love oppression!

  One of the most important tenets of a rational outlook is to change one’s model of the world in light of new evidence, or persistent failure. I was watching the Oscar nominated flick, Zero Dark Thirty last night and was appalled by the implicit racism towards brown folks in general, and “Paks” in particular, as the…

  rrameez

  January 20, 2013

  Modeling, Social Science

  israel, Might is right, Pakistan, palestine, Socrates, Thrasymachus, US, Vietnam, Zero Dark Thirty