An event on Ziaur Rahman
BRAIN is hosting a book launch that I would encourage all to attend
The Politics of Synthesis - Redux
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Over a decade ago, Kamila Shamsie wrote an essay titled Pop Idol about rock and pop music under Gen Zia-ul-Huq’s Islamising regime in the Granta magazine. Starting with Nazia and Zoheb Hassan’s Disco Deewane — Pakistan’s first pop video, before ‘Zia’s soulless rule sucked the life out of Pakistan’s youth culture’ —she went on to tell us what happened to…