Kashmir has lived many seasons of erasure: newspapers censored, cable channels muted, voices disappearing overnight. But books linger in the physical world longer than speeches or tweets.
Gossip spreads in a Pakistani neighbourhood after a couple’s daughter elopes with a man late at night.
A poem from Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Hafsa Kanjwal contends that Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed’s state-building practices helped strengthen India’s hold over Kashmir while also enabling modernisation, which paradoxically reinforced a sense of alienation rather than reconciliation.
Saadat Hasan Manto knew that it was not for him to analyse the multitudes people contain, and that often spill out from us without warning.
Not only did the promise of “Naya Pakistan” never materialise, the country is actually much worse off today.