Farhan Wahab, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Karnan: Generational Awakening, Resistance And Emancipation.

Tribal self-determination is the logical endpoint of colonisation. Decolonisation is political equality under democratic decision-making. It means finally overthrowing British, overthrowing the idea of nation and replacing it with the idea of the state without nation. The state, governed by all

by Farhan Wahab

Fictional Arts·Literature

Death

I was at my funeral. My body was wrapped in a white sheet, some of my friends and relatives were standing there and silently looking at my face, of course, they had tied my mouth around my head with a piece of

by Farhan Wahab

Politics & Culture

Sufism- Forgotten Conjunctures And The Identity Politics Of Elites

A new tragedy has unfolded in the case of Muslims in Sri Lanka. The cultural junkies who consider themselves as the experts in terrorism-related topics are now looking out for traditional Muslims. On the other hand, Sufi orthodoxy proclaims

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Politics & Culture

When Conservative Fantasies Run Into Reality.

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals”. Mark Twain In order to reform the Muslim society in Sri Lanka, all the madrasas which endlessly produce lame-brained Moulavis should be reformed. This is one of the epidemics which rigorously

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Politics & Culture

Gangs Of Wasseypur : The Mafia Politics Of The Third World

Gangs of Wasseypur presents itself as the epic of third world politics, it is the story of bastards and fucks who control the entire game played out in the underworld: a dirty game of deceit and disguise. The movie was released

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Fictional Arts·Literature

Whores of MadTown

Days are tricky as dogs, you don’t know what they will offer you on the next day even if you had been running on your own routine. I was really tired of handling everything on my own. I had been so

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Politics & Culture

Legalising Prostitution: Relapsing Into Darkness

A Step Forward To Become A Full Mature Capitalistic Nation Sri Lanka is thinking about decriminalising prostitution. When I read opinion pieces relating to this subject, I often think: are we relapsing into an era of darkness, or are

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Politics & Culture

Are Muslims in debt to the Buddhist nation ?

The Racists in Sri Lanka always get gala premiers to stage their sickening racism; sometimes back, a minister in parliament asks Muslims to leave the country if they want to enjoy particular cultural customs or practices based on Sharia laws. In

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Politics & Culture

The Illusion Of Corporatised Knowledge

In a corporate-dominated world, every belief has been substituted and replaced by cynical notions. Human morality is no longer in existence: human imperfections are considered to be weaknesses. We go to school just to become part of the workforce of a corporation. We

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Politics & Culture

A Note on Laïcité ( French secularism ) -My Thoughts

Classical anti-Semitism rooted in nationalist notions viewed Jews as a distinct cultural entity functioning outside the national collective, particularly within the Germanic majoritarian context. This perspective considered Jews not as a demand for a separate polity but as a religious-cultural group that

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Politics & Culture

Pornography : Commodification Of Women In Predatory Capitalism

“The new pornography is left-wing; the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.” – Andrea Dworkin India has banned porn sites and consuming porn

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