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‘We Rarely Understand A Thing’

Aamer Hussein is a writer, critic and a Professorial Writing Fellow at the...

Image is Everything

  Ahmedabad: A City in the World Amrita Shah Bloomsbury India Rs 499 | 216...

The State of Melancholia

  Looking at my somewhat grim face in the mirror, I remembered what a...

Welcome to the Jungle

  Once again, the law has taken its own (murky and dubious) course, and...

Mama Gramah Mattur

  You know how you always miss what is right in front of you? That has...

Of Swimming Pools and Land Pools

I have seen the future, and there are no motorcycles. No bicycles either, nor...

Ismat and Ayaan

How does a secular intellectual feminist perspective emerge when one is raised...

The Free Radical

  “Puzzled, I stare at the skein not knowing which end I should pull so...

The Crooked Line

Ismat Chughtai, the most provocative and rebellious among women writers in Urdu...