SAT’s X Space Session, Bangladesh through time captures shifting identities, youth perspectives, and the nation’s evolving push for sovereignty.
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SAT’s X Space Session, Bangladesh through time captures shifting identities, youth perspectives, and the nation’s evolving push for sovereignty.
Uniquely born and uniquely existing, this is the story of Pakistan’s 76 years as a free country.
The poetry of Allama Iqbal evokes parallels between the ordeals of the past and the anxieties of the present. As Muslims in the region, particularly in Pakistan, reawaken hopes for the future, it is perhaps wise to seek inspiration from where their ancestors first discovered it.
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has drawn varied reactions, including renewed anger from nations once subjected to British colonialism. To them, the occasion is yet another moment of reckoning; an opportunity to reveal the darker side of the extraordinary grandeur symbolized by the British Crown.
Iqbal was a philosopher who focused both on the individual and the collective/nation. But the qualities Iqbal ascribed to that ideal man were also transferrable and recommended on a collective and national level.
Historical figures have always been questioned and made controversial in parallel to the uncontested fame they hold. Such is the case with the charismatic and visionary poet-philosopher of the South Asian Region – Iqbal. Are his ideas relevant today? How do we objectively establish the relevance of his ideas?
Islam to Iqbal was a philosophical ethos, more than a mere religion confined to the individual sphere. Thus, he spoke both in terms of the individual and the collective – framed in the concept of the Ummah.
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