Nadeem F. Paracha
Nadeem Farooq Paracha is a Pakistani journalist, author, cultural critic, satirist and historian. He is a columnist for Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn newspaper. 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, Points of Entry and .
His fifth book, Soul Rivals, a political and social history of Sufism in Pakistan, was published in February 2020.
Paracha is also a Research Scholar and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC. 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.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.
