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Review: Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam Dalrymple
When South Asians speak of “Partition” they are usually referring to the 1947 partition of British India that created the nation-states of India and…
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Review--Queen Zarqa: A Transgender's Odyssey by Hayat Roghaani
Queen Zarqa: A Transgender’s Odyssey (Lightstone Publishers 2025) is an English translation from the Urdu of a novel by Hayat Roghaani.
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Aasiya (Final part)
A few days later, Akhtar Auntie called Ammi again and began crying.
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Aasiya (Part 3)
The next day when Ammi returned from Apa Sughra’s house, she looked pale and shaken.
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Aasiya (Part 2)
Abba and Naveed Bhai were very angry when they heard this story.
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Aasiya (Part 1)--Translation from the Urdu
Sharing a translation of another short story from Bilal Hasan Minto’s Model Town
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Bhatkhande: The Contradiction of Music's Modernity
This essay was originally published on my personal blog in May 2018.
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Doctor Walter (Part 5)
Abba told Ammi they should visit the Walters’ to express their regrets and sympathy.
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Doctor Walter (Part 4)
The repulsive general spewed all sorts of new nonsense every day in order to threaten people.
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Doctor Walter (part 3)
The monsoon rains that arrive every year in July or August from the Arabian Sea hadn’t yet reached Lahore and it was very hot.
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Doctor Walter (Part 2)
Before the Walter house had been completed and they could move in, Mazhar had an idea.
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Doctor Walter (Part 1)-- Translation from Urdu
During the pandemic, I experimented with translating Bilal Hassan Minto’s Model Town (Sanjh 2015)—a collection of Urdu short stories told from the…
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Thoughts of a Bibliophile
Thoughts of a Bibliophile
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