The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A New Politics of ‘Critical Localism’

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 5/20/2013 8:37:55 AM

'While I am yet to watch the film version of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (though I hear great things about it), … Continue reading »'

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A Journey Through Pakistan: Nicholas Schmidle’s To Live or To Perish Forever (2010)

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 5/14/2013 4:57:16 AM

'The Times reporter Declan Walsh’s expulsion from Pakistan on the eve of the general election reminds one of the expulsion … Continue reading »'

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Let’s Not Talk About History

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 5/4/2013 4:06:13 AM

'After about a month I watched these two films (Meherhaan & Guerrilla) in Calcutta, I landed in Dhaka toward the middle of December, … Continue reading »'

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Let’s Not Talk About History

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 5/4/2013 3:56:19 AM

'After about a month I watched these two films (Meherhaan & Guerrilla) in Calcutta, I landed in Dhaka toward the … Continue reading »'

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Book Review: The Hussaini Alam House/Huma R. Kidwai

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 5/3/2013 7:54:09 PM

'[First published in Cafe Dissensus] Daphne du Maurier begins Rebecca thus: ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed … Continue reading »'

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Imaginary Pathways

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 4/19/2013 5:38:33 AM

'When we started on this journey, Neither you nor I did know We have started walking Like the child’s first … Continue reading »'

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Aborted Romance

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 4/16/2013 6:42:06 PM

'This morning I came back home early. Right after the morning lecture for which I work as a Teaching Assistant, … Continue reading »'

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The First Cigarette

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 4/15/2013 6:07:42 AM

'Do you remember when you had your first shot at trying to smoke a cigarette? Most probably, most of us … Continue reading »'

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Translation: Shankha Ghosh’s Sakalbelar Alo (The Morning Light)

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 4/6/2013 7:02:10 PM

'[This is my translation of the first chapter of Shankha Ghosh's novella Sokalbelar Alo (The Morning Light). I have been … Continue reading »'

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Death by Snow

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 3/30/2013 6:37:48 PM

'These last few steep steps always exhausted him most. The swiping in and out of the grad space, walking into … Continue reading »'

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Playing with God

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 3/27/2013 8:42:54 PM

'I look out of my window into a sea of blue sky: green foliage, alien breeze, a feel of fall … Continue reading »'

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A Rewriting of the Ending of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Part – II

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 3/23/2013 7:38:28 PM

'By Mosarrap H. Khan [This is the second part of the creative rewriting of the ending of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. … Continue reading »'

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A Rewriting of the Ending of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 3/22/2013 5:46:26 PM

'By Mosarrap H. Khan [In one of the courses on Postcolonial Literature that I did while at the University ofBritish Columbia, … Continue reading »'

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Poems

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 3/8/2013 12:22:20 AM

'Self Spices are genes visible. They travel with us encased, forgotten in the corner of a cupboard.       … Continue reading »'

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New York City Diary – III (Homeless People)

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 3/2/2013 11:29:18 AM

'I did have a relatively demanding day at work today. Every Friday, I teach two consecutive recitation classes starting at … Continue reading »'

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New York City Diary – II

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 2/10/2013 6:19:32 AM

'In September, 2012, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which describes itself as “a nonprofit public interest law firm whose mission … Continue reading »'

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The Notion of Sacred Music in Islam

Author : Mosarrap H Khan      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 2/5/2013 5:03:48 AM

'[This is an excerpt from a longer academic piece that I wrote on Islamic hip hop. Here I present only … Continue reading »'

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We must speak up for Ashis Nandy

Author : margin-o-marginalia      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 1/27/2013 1:05:38 PM

'Like every controversy that happens in India, the recent one concerning Ashis Nandy’s comment about SC/ST/OBC corruption came to me … Continue reading »'

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New York City Diary – I

Author : margin-o-marginalia      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 1/13/2013 4:39:41 AM

'Imagine a coffee shop. This one is like any run-off-the-mill places with limited seating spaces. People who throng this place … Continue reading »'

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Salem Junction

Author : margin-o-marginalia      Blog : Marginomarginalia      Date : 1/9/2013 3:47:35 AM

'The twinkling lights at the bottom of the hill resembled a million glowworms on a humid summer night. The car … Continue reading »'

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