‘Shabnam’ is a dewdrop in Persian. Shabnam (1960) is the name of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s passionate love story that stretches beyond the history of nearly a century ago. Historically, Afghanistan, and its ...
Historically, Afghanistan, and its cities Kabul and Peshawar, were central in the Mughal imagination as the space where the idea of Hindustan took shape. Bengal, on the other hand, was the farthest ...
The night, suffused in a half sleep-half awake-dreams-imagining state, ended long after the sunrise. The previous night, I could not comprehend what exactly was happening. I failed to do so in the ...
Join us for the launch of the translation by Nazes Afroz of Shabnam, written by Syed Mujtaba Ali. The launch will be followed by a conversation between Nazes Afroz, Husna Hashim and Shuddhabrata ...
Join us for the launch of the translation by Nazes Afroz of Shabnam, written by Syed Mujtaba Ali. The launch will be followed by a conversation between Nazes Afroz, Husna Hashim and Shuddhabrata ...
It is the only published eyewitness account of Afghanistan’s tumultuous days in the 1920s by a non-Afghan. Former BBC executive editor of South and Central Asia Nazes Afroz has translated it, styled, ...
Fiction: An Indian man and Afghani woman fall in love in 1920s’ Kabul, but a tragic fate awaits them
The night, suffused in a half sleep-half awake-dreams-imagining state, ended long after the sunrise. The previous night, I could not comprehend what exactly was happening. I failed to do so in the ...
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