05 Aug, 2009

what can one say after this long silence?

05 Aug, 2009

what can one say after this long silence?

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01 Aug, 2009

Doc 101: Intro to Life and How to Live It

01 Aug, 2009

Doc 101: Intro to Life and How to Live It Dr. Mohammad Sarwar 1930-2009 1. Friendship: Find partners, friends. Create relationships. Share passion-politics not geography age religion. Once connected, stay close. 2. History: Explore beneath it, around it over it, and read between lines. Once you think you understand,...

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31 Jul, 2009

Casa Azul at Macondo 2009

Sehba Sarwar
31 Jul, 2009

Casa Azul at Macondo 2009        

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09 Jun, 2009

08 June 2009

Sehba Sarwar
09 Jun, 2009

DSF (1949-1954)

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03 Jun, 2009

‘Time to create a left-oriented think tank’

03 Jun, 2009

[LINK] | Monday, June 01, 2009 By Shahid Husain Karachi Eminent jurist and former governor of Sindh, Justice (Retired) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim said on Sunday it was high time a “left-oriented” think tank was established in Pakistan. Speaking at a memorial meeting for the late Dr Mohammad Sarwar at...

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27 May, 2009

Student politics pioneer Dr. M. Sarwar passes on

Sehba Sarwar
27 May, 2009

[LINK] Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 | 06:10 PM PST | KARACHI: One of Karachi’s oldest general practitioners, well known physician and former student leader Dr Mohammad Sarwar passed away peacefully in his sleep at home early Tuesday morning in Karachi, after a prolonged bout with cancer. He was 79....

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18 May, 2009

The meltdown in northern Pakistan continues.

18 May, 2009

The meltdown in northern Pakistan continues. A high number of refugees have evacuated Swat and Buner and have moved into the camps set up for them, human rights activist I.A. Rahman reports in his opinion piece in Dawn. The Pakistani government is exploring ways to offer cash as relief...

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14 May, 2009

On the personal front…

14 May, 2009

On the personal front (which is always somehow political), the formal closure of our daughter’s early education program was announced today. In the morning, Jeannette Doina, who has served as the Director of the program for almost 20 years, was led out of the building with a box in...

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26 Apr, 2009

The news from Pakistan continues…

26 Apr, 2009

The news from Pakistan continues to flood in, underscoring Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and the ‘taliban’s’ proximity to Islamabad. I find myself asking where were these questions inLink 2007, when the Lal Masjid siege took place in the center of Islamabad? Musharraf was in power then, well-supported by Dubya. Of...

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11 Apr, 2009

This year, once again, there's been…

11 Apr, 2009

This year, once again, there’s been a national movement around the US to organize a 40-Day protest (the six weeks prior to the Christian Easter holiday) against institutions that provide abortion services. As always, Planned Parenthood, an organization that offers so many important health services to women, and has...

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09 Apr, 2009

A frightening video

09 Apr, 2009

A frightening video (shot by someone using a mobile phone, who spoke to Dawn news) appeared on YouTube, depicts the flogging of a young teenage woman in Swat. The entire incident is reminiscent of the Zia era, but many times worse: extremist forces are more insidious and their reach...

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31 Mar, 2009

Aslam talking at the Station Museum…

31 Mar, 2009

Imran Aslam talking at the Station Museum, at a VBB event, Cultural Narratives. Documentation by Faroukh Virani.

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I was inspired to begin my blog when I visited the library at my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, and saw a framed photograph of my friends and me calling for divestment of funds from South Africa.

In 2007,  I began a blog when I visited my alma mater and saw a framed photograph of my friends and me calling for divestment of funds from South Africa. I use the blog to document my movement between spaces, Houston, Karachi, Delhi, Dhaka, Los Angeles and elsewhere, recording observations, images and conversations. Here, I document the multiple realities that I inhabit – writer, artist, mother, activist, educator, and transnational. Interviews from my blog were exhibited at Houston’s Baker Ripley Community Center (2014) and at Houston Public Library in downtown (2015). My papers are archived at the University of Houston’s library.