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The Mashriq newspaper from 1 December 1970 showing Shahnaz Gul (left) among stories on the election and Cyclone Bhola. One of the greatest tragedies of the case was that the Pakistani press often prioritised Shahnaz over major political and humanitarian crises. This was an injustice to victims of Cyclone Bhola in East Pakistan who had their stories competing for spaces next to images of Shahnaz on front pages.

Southasia Review of Books podcast #11: Sex, scandal and the death of a poet in 1970s Karachi

11 Nov 2024

In her memoir, Zara Chowdhary recounts visiting the Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad with her grandfather, where Ahmad Shah I, the first Muslim king of the Gujarat sultanate, used to pray his namaz. From the fallout of the 2002 Gujarat massacre and of her family’s slow demise, Chowdhary finds fragments of identity and memory, an assertion of who they were and how they had always belonged.

Southasia Review of Books podcast #10: Zara Chowdhary on ‘The Lucky Ones’ and surviving the violence of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom

28 Oct 2024

Rising hatred against India’s minority Muslim community is a central theme in Geentanjali Shree’s ‘Our City That Year’, translated by Daisy Rockwell. It tells a story about the violence of majority communities that hold power while claiming victim status.

Southasia Review of Books podcast #09: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell on ‘Our City That Year’ and India’s invisible partitions

14 Oct 2024

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