The writer has authored two books of fiction, including Unfettered Wings: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Women (2018)
An interview with Navid Shahzad a renowned academician associated with literature in English and the liberal and performing arts
A look at the four major border crossings between India and Pakistan
Analysing the discourse of Meesha Shafi’s new single that starts off with self-doubt and inertia but ends in self-realisation
The tombs of Dai Anga, Sharfun Nisa and Mai Dai call for attention and research
A scholarly matriarch, Princess Gulbadan was the first Mughal woman to write a book on her own -- Humayun Nama -- which has been translated into...
Emperor Aurangzeb’s favourite daughter, a highly intellectual and gifted woman, has been hidden from the extensive chronicling she is worthy of....
Calculated data confirms that the garden of Chauburji was commissioned by Princess Jehan Ara, who stepped outside of her archetypal role in the...
The beloved queen of Shah Jahan, Mumtaz may not have lived to witness the realisation of her dream -- that is, Sheesh Mahal. But the ‘palace of...
The conclusion one arrives at after reading multiple accounts about the saga of Anarkali is that there was a woman by her name in Akbar’s palace....
The Begum Shahi Masjid was built in honour of Maryam Uz Zamani, Emperor Akbar’s Rajput wife whose story is the stuff of legends
It is sad that the tomb of Mughal Princess Nadira Bano, known for her love for poetry and water lilies, should be treated like a junkie’s yard, a...
Nur Jehan’s tomb is a humble reminder of the ‘defiant’ queen who did not limit herself to the Zenankhana, like the royal women before her did
