Brown PunditsA Deccani miniature of a dancing girl tying her hair, Golconda, about 1700

The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Dead Poets Society of Pakistan

  • Dead Poets of Pakistan

    X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s creative energy lies with a Westernised, English-fluent ‘boundary class’ outside patronage and power, and contrasts India’s confident, 80 per cent one-faith civilisational script with a Persianate…

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  • A commentary: Ganesh, in a confectionery mill

    Furqan Ali annotates Afshan Shafi’s poem ‘Ganesh, in a confectionery mill’, reading its placing of the Hindu deity in an industrial setting as a surrealist, biting comment on consumerism, decaying…

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