Inverse Journal

Khawar Khan Achakzai

Beyond Butshikan: Reassessing Sikandar Shahmiri’s “Iconoclast” Legacy — An Academic Essay by Khawar Khan Achakzai

In this ambitious academic essay, Khawar Khan Achakzai problematizes the historical figure of Sikandar Shahmiri—notoriously known as Sikandar Butshikan, “the idol breaker”—by engaging with a variety of historical texts, and previously unaccessed documentary and archaeological evidence. The essay cit

The Underpinnings of Hope and Survival: A Gramscian Reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz – by Khawar Khan Achakzai

On Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s birthday, Khawar Khan Achakzai presents a “Gramscian Reading” of the poet of resistance. By providing a close reading of Antonio Gramsci’s “Quaderni del carcere” and Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s verses from “Zindanama” (in written form), Khawar draws a interpretive thread via comparative s

From My Memory to Her Heart – A Poem by Khawar Khan Achakzai

On August 5, 2019, Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution were revoked to enforce the status of Union Territory on the state of Jammu and Kashmir without democratic consent from the Kashmiri people. As a measure to quell expected upheaval, the internet, TV channels, mobile telephony, landli