Some people have reacted with displeasure to the quotation from Ramcharitmanas in my previous column. In my view, the feeling of discomfort that mention of the two-liner attributed to Tulsidas seems to induce may be rather misplaced. It is only a coincidence that a reference to such an idea — which we seem to find […]
Author Archives: Ajmal Kamal
The writer edits a quarterly Urdu literary journal Aaj from Karachi, runs a bookshop and City Press, a small publishing house
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The battleground called language
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Castes in Punjab
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Patterns of change and resistance
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Resisting the stereotype
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Reading Manto in context
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How to reform Hira Mandi
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Our internal censors
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