Asim Imdad Ali

Why the digital age may be repeating the logic of empire. Until a few decades ago, colonies supplied raw materials cotton, rubber, tea, and spices...

‘The wealthy nations…have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological...

Freud wasn’t surprised by Nazi brutality, but he struggled to comprehend how the majority of Germans, an intelligent people with a great cultural Tradition,...

Five hundred years ago, Emperor Humayun was a sovereign on the run, with his dynasty's future hanging by a thread. At that precarious juncture,...

These much-hyped digital “soldiers” are primed to fervently believe in any bizarre conspiracy theory that emerges in the digital space. They generate all fire and...

Going all the way back to the Harappan civilization (circa 2500 BCE), the Indian subcontinent has never experienced a true revolution. This means there...

Disruption, far from being the red signboard of a hazard requiring caution, is now the zeitgeist of our times. Whether we look at technology,...

Understanding the true meaning of change with revolts and revolutions. If horizontal change merely reshuffles elite power, vertical change seeks social justice.

The generals, wielding the instruments of conquest and colonialism, laid the foundations for all the ancient expansive states. Assimilation was generously allowed for those willing to surrender their autonomy; the sword dispatched others who had resistance in their minds and tongues.

Even Lee Kuan Yew, often regarded as the global icon of "benevolent" dictatorship, was known to favor and advocate for the creation of a policestate where legal protections were set aside. “Repression…is a habit that grows,” said Lee addressing Singapore’s British chief minister David Marshall in the island’s colonial legislative assembly.