Known Turf

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...

"Short sketches are meant to be packed with detail, not a word out of place, and this is exactly the vividness that characterises this ...

Another extract from my new novel, ' City of Incident ' has been published and is free to read on shethepeople.tv. Do buy the book e...

Something odd has been happening with Facebook/Meta for me. Since I've not given FB permission to take all 'cookies', and since ...

Here is an extract from the first chapter of City of Incident . Please read, and then please go find the book and buy it and read the whole ...

I have a new book out. A novel about 12 characters in a metropolis, seeking balance, love, repair.  Please buy it, ideally at a bookstore, b...

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...

 When I first began work on my own, as a freelance writer, I had decided to give myself permission to write in any genre, form or style with...

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...