On Nietzsche
I am happy to publish this guest post sent from New Zealand.. (RR) “Let us honour if we can, the vertical man, Though we…
Stranger to History, By Aatish Taseer
Ziauddin Sardar’s review for The Independent is worth a read: Aatish Taseer grew up in Delhi with his Indian mother, a Sikh journalist. The…
A tribute
AHSAN JAN ALLAWALA a student from Karachi has sent this contribution to be published at Jahane Rumi. I am publishing this for it is…
Fiction: City of Stories
By Vidya Rao The streets of some cities, they say, are paved with gold. This city’s streets are paved with stories. Doubtless, they were…
The Wrong Kind of Pakistani – Ali Dayan Hasan
On the invention of “the liberal extremist” and the attempted assassination of a friend. By Ali Dayan Hasan On March 28 in Lahore, my…
Writing fiction
I loved Guardian’s feature on Ten rules for writing fiction. Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sin 1 Never open a book with…
New book: Wanted: Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family
Reviewed by: Yoginder Sikand Muslim family laws have for long been—and continue to be—a hugely controversial subject. Critics contend that these laws seriously militate…
Sadia Dehlvi’s book – Sufism: the Heart of Islam
Finally Sadia Dehlvi’s book, Sufism: The Heart of Islam (HarperCollins), is published and was launched last week in Delhi. India’s eminent writer Khushwant Singh…
Build The Peace Consensus
By Sadia Dehlvi The trail of terror continues with cricketers as the latest target. The Mumbai and Lahore attacks, public executions and the murder…
On Damadam Mast Qalandar
Renuka Narayanan writing for the Hindustan Times So many wake-up calls The unrelenting terror trail across India recalls young Pakistani author Raza Rumi’s wistful…
Greeks in Chitral, Pakistan?
By Salman Rashid There is no historical evidence of Alexander or his men straying north of the ridges of the Hindu Kush Mountains into…
Meeting Sidhu Saheb in Delhi
Before I could write about meeting a fellow blogger in Delhi, Sidhu posted this account of our meeting. It was amazing to meet a…
Vidya Rao on Vrindavan
India’s eminent singer Vidya Rao has contributed this piece for Jahane Rumi. In this personal account she writes about her recent visit to Vrindavan,…