Shahram Azhar

Dear friends, On this Christmas, I want to share my musical rendition of Robert Frosts’ magical poem, and the iconic line “the woods are lovely dark and deep”. I hope you like it :) open.spotify.com/track/36wbwLWn…

@hibasameen @PBSofficialpak Very useful database. Thank you for doing this amazing work

Many weekends and a lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into building an interactive district-level map of Pakistan's census and survey data. All open data from @PBSofficialpak. 🇵🇰 hibasameen.github.io/datadarbar/

Ha-Joon Chang compares mainstream economics to Catholicism in the Middle Ages. “Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned.”

Foreign investors are fleeing Indian equities at a record clip as a global retreat from riskier assets and concerns over surging energy costs overshadow the nation’s long-term growth story bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The countries that switched from oil and gas to solar, like Pakistan, will weather this storm in the Persian Gulf, writes @davidfickling. Bangladesh? Not so much (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Anyone else think this op ed is eighty years too late?

A PhD does not mean you are an expert. It means you are qualified to begin studying.

Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build go.nature.com/4sPERJH

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. apnews.com/article/juerge…

This #ThrowbackThursday, we go back to Mahatma Gandhi's historic Salt March, launched 96 years ago today. The protest showed the power of nonviolent resistance, inspiring movements for freedom, dignity, and human rights around the world. #HumanRightsForAll

Join us on March 22nd for the next session of the Verso Book Club. Timothy Mitchell will be joined by @nkulw to discuss "The Alibi of Capital"! "A paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy." -- Publishers Weekly versobooks.com/blogs/news/tim…

One of the best historians from Pakistan, Dr Ali Raza, discusses colonialism and the politics of the left in India.

I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces. This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.

“The colonized mind is not merely traumatized, it is trained to internalize oppression and call it disorder.” Dr. Frantz Fanon (psychiatrist & philosopher)

Call for Abstracts! Submit your abstracts before May 18 for the second annual conference of The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE - @peaceinteco). More details: #conference26" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spine.ju.mp/#conference26

Please join our lecture with @profwolff & @ShahramAzhar - there is still time to register eventbrite.com/e/marxian-clas…

THE STORY OF CAPITAL OUT NOW

Good Morning friends There is still time to register "Marxian Class Analysis" with myself and @ShahramAzhar organized by @democracyatwrk @LeftForum eventbrite.com/e/marxian-clas…

This #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, I am sharing an album in my #MaaBoli, #Punjabi Let us celebrate the revolutionary tradition of Bulleh Shah, Bhagat Singh and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Maa Boli Da Qarz- A Punjabi EP (Maa Boli Dihaar Release) youtu.be/WZsCx59_IeA?si… via @YouTube

A beautiful reminder that our mother tongue is not just spoken, it is lived. Thank you @ShahramAzhar youtu.be/WZsCx59_IeA?si…

PARTITION LITERATURE DRIVE Partition Literature focuses on the division of British India into India and Pakistan, particularly the events leading up to it and the suffering of refugees. This drive is meant to be an introduction to those interested. drive.google.com/drive/folders/…