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  • ‘Champa’: A poem by Maaz Bin Bilal

    ‘Champa’: A poem by Maaz Bin Bilal

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Jan 01, 2024 · 09:00 am
  • ‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal

    ‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Dec 10, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • ‘Tall Tales by a Small Dog’: A mongrel’s observations on small-town India are funny, witty, visceral

    ‘Tall Tales by a Small Dog’: A mongrel’s observations on small-town India are funny, witty, visceral

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Sep 17, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Can literary activism lead to a disavowal of free-market capitalism in the creation of good books?

    Can literary activism lead to a disavowal of free-market capitalism in the creation of good books?

    Saikat Majumdar
    · Aug 27, 2023 · 07:30 am
  • ‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritage

    ‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritage

    Rana Safvi
    · Sep 18, 2022 · 08:30 am
  • ‘Spring settles here on the horizon of the heart’: Banaras through the eyes of Mirza Ghalib

    ‘Spring settles here on the horizon of the heart’: Banaras through the eyes of Mirza Ghalib

    Mirza Ghalib Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Aug 25, 2022 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘The Muslim Vanishes’: A play imagines the implications of a social and economic boycott of Muslims

    ‘The Muslim Vanishes’: A play imagines the implications of a social and economic boycott of Muslims

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Apr 16, 2022 · 12:30 pm
  • What do allies write about when they write (poetry) about feminism?

    What do allies write about when they write (poetry) about feminism?

    Saikat Majumdar
    · May 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘Eid in the Days of Plague’: This short story is born of the imagination in a time of grim reality

    ‘Eid in the Days of Plague’: This short story is born of the imagination in a time of grim reality

    Rahman Abbas Translated by Maaz Bin Bilal
    · May 14, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • As the awards season approaches, a poet and editor offers some suggestions to the Sahitya Akademi

    As the awards season approaches, a poet and editor offers some suggestions to the Sahitya Akademi

    Medha Singh
    · Jan 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature

    Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Dec 26, 2020 · 08:30 am
  • The paradox of poetry in the pandemic: High online engagement, but are the books selling?

    The paradox of poetry in the pandemic: High online engagement, but are the books selling?

    Uttaran Das Gupta
    · Jul 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • Writing in the times of Covid-19: Can guilt and confessions really atone for not acting when needed?

    Writing in the times of Covid-19: Can guilt and confessions really atone for not acting when needed?

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · May 23, 2020 · 07:00 am
  • Remembering beloved movie stars: Be kind and rewind, but be open-eyed too

    Remembering beloved movie stars: Be kind and rewind, but be open-eyed too

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · May 09, 2020 · 10:00 am
  • The Art of Resistance: In a new poem, Maaz Bin Bilal declares his refusal to accept unjust laws

    The Art of Resistance: In a new poem, Maaz Bin Bilal declares his refusal to accept unjust laws

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Jan 01, 2020 · 02:30 pm
  • I’m an Indian Muslim and refuse to be certified as a citizen by this RSS-backed government

    I’m an Indian Muslim and refuse to be certified as a citizen by this RSS-backed government

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Dec 22, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • Annie Zaidi’s novel paints a searing picture of how communal disharmony affects each of us

    Annie Zaidi’s novel paints a searing picture of how communal disharmony affects each of us

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Dec 21, 2019 · 07:30 am
  • Fikr Taunsvi’s journal of the Partition paints a surrealistic tableau that lingers in the memory

    Fikr Taunsvi’s journal of the Partition paints a surrealistic tableau that lingers in the memory

    Debjani Sengupta
    · Dec 01, 2019 · 07:30 am
  • History, myth, scholarship: This qissa-as-novel by Musharraf Ali Farooqi looks power in the eye

    History, myth, scholarship: This qissa-as-novel by Musharraf Ali Farooqi looks power in the eye

    Maaz Bin Bilal
    · Nov 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • This journal by a Hindu writer from Lahore is a rare non-fiction account of the Partition

    This journal by a Hindu writer from Lahore is a rare non-fiction account of the Partition

    Fikr Taunsvi
    · Sep 25, 2019 · 08:30 am
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