In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes: “There are love jihads and there are love jihads. Mine turned into a labour of love.” ...

Every day, I call my grandparents, Nani and Nana, in Pakistan to offer some solace during their increasingly isolated situation. With all their kids and grandkids living abroad and the fear of disease ...

The book is a tome which could not have been without decades of devotion to the haunting beauty of Urdu poetry and to its startling depiction of entropy through gorgeous rhythmic harmonies.

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