
An exploration of the Pashto poetry of Amir Hamza Shinwari. A poet who lived a borderland life, or rather, a life into which borders grew. Issue 10
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One of the distinct disadvantages that I have suffered from the beginning of my schooling was not being weak in Urdu–ever! It just seemed to me as a kid that all the good kids–according to the adults, seemed to read Enid Blyton, while rogue kids (nalaiks) like myself read stuff like A. Hamid’s...
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Congratulations to Jamil Ahmad, Musharraf Ali Farooqi and Mohammad Hanif for making it to the longlist of the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature! The books (with summaries from DSC): Jamil Ahmad: TheWandering Falcon(Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India) The Wandering Falcon begins with a young couple, refugees from their tribe, who have traveled to the middle of nowhere to escape...
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