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I had forgotten to post this when it first appeared but during the pandemic, in 2021, I did this wide-ranging conversation with Naveen Kish...

When was the last time you read a story that well and truly blew your mind? I suppose, in order to answer that question, you’d have to first...

I've written my first essay for the lastest issue of Wasafiri , themed Futurisms . Here's a very short extract from my essay,  Again...

Very pleased to hear that 'Two Way Street,' a short film I wrote has been named by Platform magazine as one of the shorts to look o...

Eight years ago, I had my first essay accepted in the Griffith Review. ' Embodying Venus ' was a meditation on women's bodies an...

If a government is driven by the need to secure majority mandates, what incentives does it have to secure minority rights? In fact, if all i...

A good school or college teaches students to see people for the good or harm they do rather than focus on their skin, surnames, hair or tiff...

Freedom is not simply a matter of being fed. The technical lack of a cage also does not define freedom. She may be trained to perform on sta...

Squeeze your lids over your irises, until the inner mirror fogs over, and say the word ‘freedom’. What image do you see? I see a keen blue a...

'Bhagat Singh aur Dutt' another poem from 'Zabt-shuda Nazmein', also filed under 'anonymous'. I found it particularl...

This is a poem from the Urdu collection ' Zabt-shuda Nazmein '. Perhaps on account of censorship or fear of reprisals, many poets wr...

लाश ये किसने लाश फेंक दी जवानियों की राह में अभी नमूद-ए-ज़िन्दगी बसी ना थी निगाह में अभी दरीचा-ए-सहर खुला ना था अभी फ़सूं-ए-तीरगी मिटा न...

When the traffic light turned red, kids would dart up. Peering into the auto-rickshaw, tapping at the cab window, they offered a dozen roses...

  A nkhon  dekhi , a Hindi phrase referring to an event that one has personally witnessed, was adopted as the title for a 2013 film where Ba...