By Eisha Sarkar The ability to be the most hopeful in the most abysmal circumstances is a character of the human spirit. Since the beginning of my engagement with Pax Populi I have been very surprised at Muhammad Qasem Jami’s optimism. Here is a man, who has grown up in Read more…
By Kirthi Jayakumar When Malala Yousufzai was shot, the Taliban sent out two messages to the world. That they were absolutely cowardly, for it is only cowardice that goads one to attack an unarmed girl, and that it is not force or political wrath that they fear – but an Read more…
By Eisha Sarkar The predicament of a refugee in the land where he/she is seeking asylum can hardly be described in words. You’ve left everything you’ve ever known and created behind and taken a perilous journey with hundreds, thousands or millions of other people to a land which gives you Read more…
By Mohammed Qasem Jami O’ people, let’s learn what peace is Pray for it, before we go into pieces. You can’t buy it or sell it, You have to give it to get it. It is to have no fear when we rise, And no tears in our eyes; It Read more…
By Nahid Walizadda Let me whisper to you in my voice I am a little bride I was born in a place where my voice shouldn’t be heard The place that immediately claims ownership of me It sees my hopelessness A body that broke under the price you put on Read more…