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I A sincere question stands before us: How do we live after inheriting wounds we did not choose, parents at war with themselves, with each other and with us, homes that taught fear before trust,...
What persuades a Srinagar café owner to keep, or drop, nun-chai from the menu, and what kind of eatery now owns that cup? What turns the once-sacred Friday bazaar into a selfie-strip of fried snacks...
In Part I, we unraveled culture as the unseen loom silently weaving our identities, judgments, and reflexes. We observed how seemingly personal convictions, like a café owner's choice to retain or...
The argument thus far has tracked how imported curricula, global market logics, and minuscule cultural drips re-engineer the very drawers through which a Muslim perceives reality. Yet cognition does...
Part I exposed the loom: culture installs the hidden drawers that govern what a mind can notice, affirm, or reject. Part II traced how colonial curricula, global market logics, and minuscule media...
Our diagnosis has cut from surface symptom to civilisational marrow, tracing how borrowed curricula, market logics, and algorithmic moods have rewired the very drawers that once made Qurʾān, fiqh,...
Blueprints inspire, but blueprints alone do not pour concrete, assemble councils, or season the first vat of shūrba. Having envisioned the khanqāh’s spine, its architecture, governance,...
I - The Burial of Truth When a civilisation buries Truth, its ‘tolerance’ is a polite nihilism. Allah declares, ‘Truth has arrived and falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is ever bound to...
I In a world increasingly obsessed with diagnosis, the proliferation of problems has become its own self-sustaining industry, a vast machinery of concern that thrives not on the resolution of...
The lament of empty houses in Kashmir, while deeply evocative, is not just a social observation - it is a cultural indictment, a misdiagnosed ailment offered with the wrong medicine. What masquerades...