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24: A Banned Book from Colonial India
By Tarika Khattar In 1932, Sajjad Zaheer, a law student briefly back in India from his studies at Oxford, met Ahmed Ali, an English lecturer at Lucknow University. Zaheer, who was heavily influenced by developing radical trends in Europe, decided to publish a collection of ten Urdu short stories entitled Angarey (Embers). The stories, five…
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Travelling the World: The Travelogue as a Source
by Tiéphaine Thomason (@teaphaine) It’s a soggy, grey October. The boiler’s acting up, you’re stuck at home in a jumper, wishing you were elsewhere. At times like this, it seems natural to gravitate towards tales of warmer places. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Tim Cope’s ‘On the Trail of Genghis…
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