Colonization is the process of establishing control over another people’s area and making them their colony by fully occupying them and their territory for the interests and benefits of colonizers – those who impose the rule. On such an...
Faiz Mohammad Baloch, the Woody Guthrie of the desert. Born in Iranian Balochistan in 1900, he migrated to Indian Baluchistan as a young boy.
Karachi’s bazaars and workshops drew his father to Lyari where Faiz, like hundreds of thousands other...
Baloch have always fought the occupied forces to secure the Baloch people and their territories. During the British rule, many of the Baloch tribes had fought wars against the British colonialism and many of the Baloch were killed and...
Baloch Culture Day, observed annually on March 2nd, is a celebration of Baloch traditions, language, and identity that serves as a form of resistance against dominant narratives and historical and ongoing colonial subjugation. For the Baloch dress, music, and...
Today morning, as I was scrolling my social media account, I saw a picture of books getting “arrested” by Gwadar police, followed by some Baloch students of the Baloch Students Action Committee (BSAC), the largest student organization in the...
Fazal Baloch
A poet, fiction writer, critic and a translator AR Dad is known as the proponent of modern views in Balochi literature.
He has the credit to introduce Balochi literature to a wave of modern theories like, structuralism, post-structuralism surrealism,...
Sounds of birds’ chirping faded,
When silence continued for the fifth day.
Fear in each soul
Of the soil persisted.
Readied with armed,
The silence was of the disastrous confrontation.
Between the evil and the evilized.
Remembering Ngugi,
“Two nations in one” says Ngugi.
There were in his.
“You...
Qadir Bakhsh Rind Baloch alias Kadu Makrani was born and brought up in Makran, Balochistan. He rose up as an insurgent in Kathiawar, Gujrath, got martyred and buried in Karachi in 1887 in Mewah Shaw graveyard (Lyari). He is...
Nameeran ey Banuk Karima Baloch!
In the dark nights of hunger
When the Star of cruelty rules
Your dreams shatter
Like the soul
Wandering on the sky
Your eyes complain
To the fairies of hope
Your spirit breaks
Like a mirror on the sky
Your heart cries
To the unconscious...
Very few people know how to play with the raging thoughts of people through words and rule their hearts winningly. The ones who are expert at this are revered ever, loved ever, and lived ever.
In our surroundings pointing fingers...
