Limitless Boundaries: Homosexuality in the History of the Subcontinent

When we look at the roman­tic asso­ci­a­tions between two peo­ple in the soci­ety, and observe the laws, tra­di­tions and norms that allow and gov­ern such rela­tion­ships, we real­ize that nowa­days het­ero­sex­u­al monog­a­mous rela­tion­ships are an indi­vid­u­al’s main emo­tion­al out­let. What we fail to real­ize, how­ev­er, is that the insis­tence on the het­ero­sex­u­al monog­a­mous prac­tices is […]

History: A Lesson or Burden

Maham Kamal Khanum ‘We study his­to­ry to learn from mis­takes made in the past and remem­ber our roots’, taught the first chap­ter of my his­to­ry book back in grade 7. At the end of grade 10 when I stepped out of my O ’Lev­els His­to­ry exam I tried to remem­ber if this pur­pose had been […]