Two old companions spend a day among bookstores and unfinished conversations
A new oral history anthology explores some of the country’s most consequential moments
In Form as History, Narendra Pachkhédé examines how modern systems of power have become detached from ethical responsibility
A conversation with Daisy Rockwell on translation as an anti-border act, Urdu and Hindi and the misogyny women are taught to overlook in male writing
Ali Akbar Natiq explores the depths of human longing through stories rooted in rural Punjab
Ijaz’s latest collection offers flashes of boldness even as it searches for greater depth
Zehrah Nigah’s work resists spectacle, choosing a gentler register instead
Maha Khan Phillips re-imagines the genre with a flawed, deeply human investigator at the centre of a mystery
Anomalies have always baffled established frameworks
When the man at the traffic light came for him, Akbar did the only thing he could think of
