A letter to the USA: You cannot protect democracy – democracy needs to be protected from you

You are founded on the biggest physical and cultural genocide ever witnessed in history. How could I have believed that you were fighting to protect democracy?

Tabish Khair

· Jan 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘What kind of a world is this?’: An Indian father’s reflections after a US school shooting

Entertainment, whether from Hollywood and Bollywood, is part of the endless and needless violence that our world often defends, sometimes celebrates.

Tabish Khair

· Dec 01, 2019 · 06:30 am

Tabish Khair’s unsettling new novel asks what secrets Ahmed is keeping from his boss Anil Mehrotra

Starting with a plate of halwa, the novel peels one layer after another off one man’s life.

Tabish Khair

· May 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is this how a Jihadi Jane is made?

Fiction excerpt: What makes Ameena and Jamilla go from being teenage students in England to fighting for the IS in Syria?

Tabish Khair

· Jun 24, 2016 · 08:30 am

The possibilities with a stranger: Complete love or extreme hate

Great romances are about strangers, and so are acts of violence.

Tabish Khair

· Feb 22, 2016 · 06:30 pm

The new xenophobia: First we create a stranger, then we hate him

In today's world we construct aliens out of familiar persons and then fear them, argues a writer and poet.

Tabish Khair

· Dec 20, 2015 · 06:30 pm