by Athar Mudasir
The occupation of a different land apart from any similar religious, communal, cultural integration leads to exploitation, tyranny on the host by the parasitics regime and most hypocritic propaganda is they humiliate indigenous people and justify their illegitimate occupation and covet tyranny and exploitation through their establishments and divide them on basis of religion, caste, creed, colour.
Orientalism is a cultural and political phenomenon and not just an empty abstraction.
“Orientalism is a rethinking of what has been considered an impassable gulf between India and Pakistan for decades. – who can ever deny the constitutive character of national and cultural differences in relationships between human beings? As challenging the idea, that differences involve hostility, a frozen and reified set of essences in opposition, and the whole polemical knowledge built on this basis. What I hoped for was a new way of reading the separations and conflicts that had caused hostility, wars and the emergence of occupational control. Even if the inequalities and conflicts from which my interest in Orientalism as a cultural and political phenomenon have arisen have not disappeared, today we have at least reached consensus on the idea that this does not represent an immutable situation, but rather a historical experience whose end (or at least the partial overcoming of which) can be at hand.”
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