The author is a PhD scholar at the South Asia Institute at University of Heidelberg. She is also a research candidate for the German Research Foundation.
A Lahore-loving Bengali views an exhibition of photographs on the Kabuliwalas of Kolkata at the Brunei Gallery in SOAS London
Why are poets and cities so entangled? Perhaps because they allow us to feel, to dream and to live in the landscapes they create with their words....
Languages are the homes we carry with us as we move through life. But it is always important to remember -- we do not need to forget or antagonise...
For the first time in London, 21 of Chaïm Soutine’s paintings are collected, curated and displayed at the Courtauld Gallery
On reading Amit Chaudhuri’s seventh novel, which is a prism that refracts writing into multitudes of possibilities, a novel by a novelist who...
Life is a series of happy and unhappy accidents and the best ones are buying and reading used books. Books that we buy at cheap rates always make us...
Love, theft and madness -- on being trapped among Rothko’s Nine at the Tate Modern
Reflections on Lahore, a city of poets, lovers and drifters
