The Cultural Trauma of Dhurandhar: Why ‘Arfa Khanum’ Can’t Reconcile with the New Reality

The hysterical backlash against Dhurandhar has nothing to do with "politics" or even "Pakistan-bashing." It's a full-blown cultural trauma for a particular generation of commentators—the ones personified by the classic 'Arfa Khanum' archetype. She's not critiquing a movie. She's mourning. Mourning the sudden, violent death of the comforting moral universe that Bollywood spent decades constructing,…

BLA is Getting Bolder and Fighting Harder for Baloch Independence Than Ever Before!

Pakistan’s a rotting mess, and the world’s sniffing the decay. They paraded the Champions Trophy in February 2025—India bolted, calling it a “security dumpster,” and got a sickening “told you so” when a Karachi mosque blew apart mid-tournament, blood staining prayers. Then, March 11 hit: the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) hijacked the Jaffar Express, trapping…

A tale of two conflicts and the hypocrisy!

It has been more than six months for the ongoing Ukraine conflict and the end is nowhere near. The way this conflict has unfolded over the months, has exposed United Nations', or in a broader purview West's hypocrisy once again. Although, I was eager to include the Indian elite intellectual, pseudo-secular class along with country's…