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Review: Society Girl by Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood-Khan

India, July 5 -- In October 1970, Mustafa Zaidi, a high-ranking former bureaucrat and famous poet was found dead in his bedroom in Karachi. Shahnaz Gul, a beautiful young socialite lay unconscious on ... Read More


Of death and distraction

India, July 5 -- In October 1970, Mustafa Zaidi, a high-ranking former bureaucrat and famous poet was found dead in his bedroom in Karachi. Shahnaz Gul, a beautiful young socialite lay unconscious on ... Read More


Review: Loal Kashmir by Mehak Jamal

India, June 27 -- There's a common saying, "In Kashmir, the news can be wrong, but the rumours are always right," writes Mehak Jamal in Loal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land, her debut collect... Read More


Sam Dalrymple: "The Northeast was probably the most affected by Partition"

India, June 21 -- This book is about the five partitions of the Indian Empire, which stretched from Aden in the west to Burma in the east to now 12 nations in three geographic regions. At the time, yo... Read More


'Curzon integrated Gulf sheikhs into the Indian empire'

India, June 21 -- 1What did the Indian empire actually look like? A 1909 map shows Burma as British India, and Nepal and Bhutan as princely states - they're in yellow, exactly like Jaipur and Hyderaba... Read More


Scaachi Koul: "Every writer should be in therapy"

India, June 7 -- After your first book of personal essays [One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (2017)] was published, you married your long-term boyfriend, moved to New York, became... Read More


'Every writer should be in therapy'

India, June 7 -- 1After your first book of personal essays (One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter) was published in 2017, you married your long-term boyfriend, moved to New York, lear... Read More


Faria Basher: "I realised the only way to become a writer was to start writing"

India, May 26 -- Your story, An Eye and a Leg, draws its readers in - grabbing their eyeballs - with its opening line, "When my eye fell out of its socket, I called for my mother." This surreal story ... Read More