Roman Urdu ki Azaadi
Why I write Urdu in Latin letters, what it costs, and what it quietly gives back.
Thoughts
Longer pieces
Essays about language, craft, and the places the poems come from.
Thoughts
Essays about language, craft, and the places the poems come from.
Why I write Urdu in Latin letters, what it costs, and what it quietly gives back.
An evening walk through the old city, in six photographs and rather too many words.
Taking two lines apart to see what makes them hold — misra, radif, qafiya, and the trick of the turn.