What would You Call It? - Musings on the Flood

Byline: Maryam Sakeenah One stands the risk of being dubbed illiberal and unenlightened, if one sees in the deluge that has drowned one-fifths of the country the hand of Allah. The floods have, among other things, again brought to the fore the gaping ideological split that cuts across Pakistani society, making it deeply fractured and polarised. The flood and the way we choose to look at it raises some fundamental questions that strike at the heart of our very self-definition and our worldview - in fact, our very identity.