As the celebratory clamour of ‘60 years of Indian Independence’ accompanied by boasts of our strategic partnership with the US and jingoistic roars against Pakistan threaten to deafen us, let’s
(Qurratulain Hyder passed away on 21 August. Mahmood S. Farooqi remembers this remarkable Urdu writer, humanist and feminist, who in a world torn apart by communal violence and Partition, sought
