Nadeem F. Paracha

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Nadeem Farooq Paracha
Born
Nadeem Farooq Paracha

6 February 1967
Karachi
Other namesNadeem F. Paracha
OccupationJournalist
Years active1987– present

Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu: ندیم فاروق پراچہ‎) is a Pakistani journalist,[1][2][3] author, cultural critic, satirist[4] and historian.[5][6][7] He is a columnist for Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn newspaper.[8][9][10] He was also a part of Atish Raj, an industrial and avant-garde rock band.

He is the author of five books on the social and political history of Pakistan: The Pakistan Anti-Hero, End of the Past, and .[11] His fifth book, , a political and social history of Sufism in Pakistan, was published in February 2020.[12]

Paracha is also a Research Scholar and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC.[13] and a consultant for Adcom Leo Burnett Worldwide.

Paracha was a radical Marxist student leader in the 1980s. He was often considered to be a socialist when he joined journalism in the 1990s. However, over the last decade he has often described himself as a Muslim modernist, a progressive Pakistani nationalist, and a democrat. He is also a harsh critic of postmodernism and is staunchly against the mixing of religion with politics.[14][15]

Books[]

  • End of the past : An immediate eyewitness history of a troubled nation, Lahore : Vanguard Books, 2016, 234 p.
  • The Pakistan Anti-Hero : History of Pakistani nationalism through the lives of iconoclasts, Lahore : Vanguard Books, 2017, 396 p.
  • Points of Entry : Encounters at the origin-sites of Pakistan, Chennai : Tranquebar, 2018, 160 p.
  • Muslim modernism : A case for Naya Pakistan, Lahore : Vanguard Books, 2019, 162 p.
  • Soul Rivals : State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan, Chennai : Tranquebar, 2020, 128 p.

References[]

  1. ^ Ali, Sobia (n.d.). "An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha". HuffPost. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Nadeem F Paracha". awamiweb.
  3. ^ "Nadeem F Paracha". politics92.
  4. ^ "Pakistani satire of Malala conspiracy theories taken as real conspiracy theory". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ "An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha". Dawn.
  6. ^ "Profile of Nadeem F. Paracha". awaztoday.
  7. ^ "Nadeem F. Paracha". pakistantimes.
  8. ^ "Pakistan: The lesser-known histories of an ancient land".
  9. ^ "SMOKERS' CORNER".
  10. ^ "Profile of Nadeem F. Paracha". Pakistannewshd.com.
  11. ^ "Muslim Modernism Events".
  12. ^ "Soul Rivals Events".
  13. ^ "NED Events".
  14. ^ "Reading Muslim Modernism in Pakistan".
  15. ^ "The Real Pakistani Identity Is Nothing Close To What The State Peddles".



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