fiction/non/fiction S8 Ep. 33: Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition
Novelist and journalist Mirza Waheed joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about brewing tensions between two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. Waheed, who was born in Kashmir and previously worked as a journalist, explains how the recent massacre of Indian tourists there at the hands of militants connects to a broader context that includes Partition, the 1947 event that separated the two countries. He reflects on growing up in Kashmir, a place to which both Pakistan and India would like to lay claim. Waheed reads from his debut novel, The Collaborator.
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An Urdu Epic Puts India’s Partition Into Historical Perspective - The New York Times | By Aditi Sriram, April 8, 2019
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
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