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My thoughts on ‘The Return of the Butterfly’ by Moni Mohsin

By |2024-01-19T12:43:38+00:00January 19th, 2024|Musings|

Do not be fooled by the heels on the cover or the seemingly illiterate, housewife narrator: this is a serious story about politics. Moni Mohsin’s writing is full of translated Urdu expressions, Urdu phrases written in transliteration, and such a beautiful Pakistani butchering of the English language, that I am in awe.

The Reverie Publishers Panel in Ananke’s Lit Fest

By |2023-04-12T12:25:26+00:00April 12th, 2023|Writing|

A few days ago I saw some of my favorite authors in one frame, and I thought, hey. I want to listen to this. It was the Reverie Publishers panel refereed by Safinah Danish Elahi in the Ananke Women’s Literary Festival, Day 2, today. She talked to Moni Mohsin, Osman Haneef and Zain Saeed for 50 minutes. Here are my favorite parts from it.

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