Renowned scientists disappear between 2020 and 2030. Tabish Khair’s new novel unravels the mystery

An excerpt from ‘The Body by the Shore’, by Tabish Khair.

Tabish Khair

· Jan 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Gossip and godsibb: How social media helps populists like Trump to thrive

They push the buttons of your grievances, frustrations, resentments, failures, aspirations and anger.

Tabish Khair

· Feb 08, 2021 · 07:30 am

Predictions for post-coronavirus world: Increased xenophobia, greater marginalisation of workers

With Covid-19 comes the ability to thwart any kind of organisation to oppose the economic status quo.

Tabish Khair

· Mar 15, 2020 · 06:30 am

The shooting down of Flight PS 752 reflects the tragic price of playing the Iranian people

Human error of the sort that resulted in the inadvertent shooting down of the plane is more likely to occur in countries with autocratic structures.

Tabish Khair

· Jan 21, 2020 · 08:30 am

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