by Call Me, Beta
A 1.5-generation Pakistani-American journalist checks in with her Twitter troll dad and writer/activist uncle to talk about current events, politics, social issues, South Asian culture, history, and American pop culture. It’s family. It’s politics. It’s family politics.
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March 2, 2024
<p>The Ashrafs finally convene to discuss the recent elections in Pakistan, and try to untangle what's happening—and has been happening in the last few years, and how things work. What's each player doing? Imran Khan, the PTI, the military Establishment, … You might even come away better equipped to understand Israeli politics. But no guarantees! It is, as we say, family; it's politics; and sometimes it's just family politics.</p> <p>We also mention Razi Dada: https://www.youtube.com/@RaziNaama</p> <p>… and Khala ka beta Salman: https://www.249kasalman.pk/salman/</p>
November 15, 2023
<p>"The South Asian mindset is only now starting to come out being colonized," says @iFaqeer halfway through this episode. And The Ashrafs launch into a discussion of the basics of the South Asian Origin Story. Was it a Partition or Independence? What exactly led to Pakistan coming into existence? We also cover what @AfricaIsACountry recently quoted Yasmin Khan describing as the rupturing of community evolution, and distortion of historical trajectories.</p> <p>One small correction we should offer is that Aurangzeb's mother was not Hindu. His grandmother and great grandmother most probably were.You will also hear mention of, or find background material at:</p> <p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Macaulay's Children</a>. </p> <p>* <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprador_bourgeoisie" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Comprador Class</a>. There is a very interesting paper on the comprador class in the Pakistani context <a href="https://www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/An-Analysis-of-the-Role-of-Comprador-Class-A-Neo-Colonial-Study-of-a-Case-of-Exploding-Mangoes-by-Hanif.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here</a>.</p> <p>* Justice Makarand Katju's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/justicekatju/posts/fifth-address-to-the-indian-nationthere-is-no-construction-without-destructionin/2744883018885560/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">reference to Partition as a "British Swindle"</a>. </p> <p>* The Sepoy Mutiny, if you will. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857</a></p> <p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dalrymple_(historian)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">William Dalrymple</a> and his work. </p> <p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babu_(title)#Civil_servants" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Babus</a>. </p> <p>* The Bollywood Movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagaan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Lagaan</a>. </p> <p>* The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khilafat_Movement " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Khilafat Movement</a>. </p>
November 11, 2023
<p>The current Pakistani government has rather suddenly decided to kick out a million unregistered Afghan Refugees. Discussing that situation brings The Ashrafs back to talking about South Asia, South Asian history, and inevitably words and their meanings.</p> <p>Things you will hear mentioned include:</p> <p>* A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/-1ghGWXSl7A?si=kyuHgMFNnZ0UtxZl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Sapan event about the refugee crisis</a>, or crises, across South Asia</p> <p>* An <a href="https://x.com/iFaqeer/status/1719299371416883686?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Open Letter from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) to the UNHCR</a></p> <p>* A Twitter thread on the <a href="https://x.com/iFaqeer/status/1721892608186933566?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">longer history of Af-Pak relations</a> (pun intended)</p> <p>* <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Taliban-Militant-Islam-Fundamentalism-Central/dp/0300089023" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Ahmed Rashid's book on The Taliban</a>. [Please help us figure out what the correction pronunciation of his name is.]</p> <p>* A <a href="https://x.com/iFaqeer/status/1718566383590809654?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">telex home (kinda like a Cipher 😉) from the US Ambassador</a> in Karachi (yes, Karachi) about Af-Pak relations—from 1951</p>
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A 1.5-generation Pakistani-American journalist checks in with her Twitter troll dad and writer/activist uncle to talk about current events, politics, social issues, South Asian culture, history, and American pop culture.
It’s family. It’s politics. It’s family politics.
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