In a public conversation in Kolkata in 2010, writer and scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was asked if she would describe herself as a “cosmopolitan”. To which, like any erudite Bengali public ...

In 2019, author and journalist Aatish Taseer faced an abrupt rupture in his life when he lost his Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) status. This would be a turning point in the life of Taseer and ...

Taseer’s courage shone as he took a stand, giving interviews and calling for a presidential pardon for Bibi, advocating for her case publicly on TV channels. However, the narrative shifted as ...

Aatish Taseer became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in the fall of 2015. He is the author, most recently, of “The Way Things Were,” which The Los Angeles Review of ...

On January 4, 2011, Salmaan Taseer’s outspoken stance on the abuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws was silenced by a barrage of bullets after he stepped out of a coffee shop in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market.

It was a chilly pre-winter eve in 1983 Lahore, and Abba as a member of the MRD — Movement For The Restoration of Democracy — was going to the court arrest at Charing Cross Lahore to create a movement ...

'The ability to look hard at your own faith, to reject it, to consider another: I sometimes thought I must have traveled through a good part of the Muslim world in search of this intellectual openness ...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan—In the busy commercial market of Rawalpindi, Islamabad’s twin city, the narrow alleyways of cloth dyers, jewelers, and shoe peddlers are crammed with shoppers. At a roadside food ...