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Jamil Urfi

What colonial writing about Indian birds reveals about the British Raj

The wealth of British writing about birds doesn’t just tell us about the avian creatures but also about how they lived and interacted in India.

Jamil Urfi
· Dec 16, 2018 · 08:30 am
‘Biswin Sadi’: How I came of age in the 1960s with long-gone Urdu magazines and books of the time

Jamil Urfi recalls the inimitable Urdu literature of his youth and how it fell out of popularity with the turn of the century.

Jamil Urfi
· May 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm