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Guest Editor’s Note

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Volume 16

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End of Volume 15

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Photo Essay: Balochistan’s Mordor

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Photo Essay: The Legends of Noori Jam Tamachi and Lahut La Makaan – Part II

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Photo Essay: The Legends of Noori Jam Tamachi and Lahut La Makaan – Part I

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Audio: Unreal Animals

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Video: Interpreting Sindhi Folklore with Bina Shah

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Dreams Are Wiser Than Men

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Monsters Under Your Bed, Monsters in Your Head

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THE PRINCE AND THE STORYTELLERS

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Literature for Change: Interview with Ted Chiang

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Till Life Do Us Part

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Destiny of a Sin

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The Lion Man

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The Missing Children of Chiltan

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Butler Bob

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The Lonely Tracks

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Monkey Girl

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Water Spirits

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Biting the Bullet: Your Folklore is my Grandma’s Tale

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Bhola

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Zulaikha

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Colin, Complete Arranger

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The Secrets of Men

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Alisoun Device and the Black Dog

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Three Tales After Rumi

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Mahabharata’s Silent Women Speak

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Details

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The Shaman Speaks to the Mother of the Sea Beasts

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The Shaman Meets With the First of the Dead

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Quest

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Golconda Fort

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Among the Sows

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The Son And The Salt-eater

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Saif ul Malook

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Volume 15 Theme and Cover Story

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Guest Editor’s Note

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Volume 15

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End of Volume 14

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Alcoves

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Photo Essay: Portals and Passageways

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The Accidental Pilgrim: An Interview With Aatish Taseer

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Book Review: No Land’s Man By Aasif Mandvi

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Audio Essay: Home

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Flight Paths: Homecoming

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Flight Paths: Homesick

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Flight Paths: ‘Je me souviens’ – Of Journeys and Endings

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Arrivals And Departures In A Grey Area

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Of Hearth And History: A Chat WIth Rafia Zakaria

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Thikana: Lahore’s Writers And Their Houses

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Audio: Saadat Hasan Manto’s Saveray Jo Kal Aankh Meri Khuli

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Audio: Building New Homes

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Circling the Shrines of a Hundred Mouths: Reading and Remembering Bedil

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Waiting For Gulshan Ara

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Home Orbit

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The Seven Lives Of Seeta

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A Nomad’s Home

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Load Shedding

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Home Calling

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Bunty Wali Aunty

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A Matter Of Life And Death

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Borderless

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Eliza Loves A Warm Kitchen

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The Curtain

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The Old Farm

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The Everyday

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When A Baby Hasn’t Been Fed

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What Separated The Land From The Sea

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London 2009

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Memories Yanked From A Voiceless Throat

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On Making A Home

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Old Woman Knitting

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Bappama

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Homesickness

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Outside The Cafe

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We Water Them With Salted Tears

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tell me that i am living somewhere else and that it is better there

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Audio Slideshow: A 17th Century Persian Ghazal From India

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Our Dreams of Colour

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About the Issue

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Volume 14

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End of Volume 13

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Sheep in the Big City: On Being an Immigrant & Belonging in The Metropolis

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Photo Essay: Do You Have an Exit Strategy?

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A Study in Scarlet – Violence and the Karachi Novel

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Cities of (Un)familiarity – An Interview with Kamila Shamsie

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Photo Essay: Labyrinth

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Leaving the Metropolis

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Sassoon Dock

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Turning the Lens Around: The Humans Behind the Camera

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Carrot Cake Day

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Killing Five People and Injuring Fifteen Others

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A Good Deed

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Another Dawn

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apartment

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Designated Staircase Number Two

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Homecoming

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Miss Moth

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Saurangi’s Lady

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Loss Triangles

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The Cigarettewala

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The Prostitute

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The Stepping Stone

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The Red Robe

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Tracks

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Turf

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Walk

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Worship

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An Indian Dream

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In Memoriam

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Hide

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Train to Bombay

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Ode to Lahore

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Dhobi Ghats of Malleswaram

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Beirut

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Dear Istanbul,

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Playmates

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About the Issue

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Volume 13

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End of Volume 12

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Translation: ‘The Soaking of Sardar Jagdish Singh’ by Upendranath Ashk

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Scar Tissue

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Mad Man’s Villanelle

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daybreak

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She Comes Undone

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Narcosis

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Hunger

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Globe-trotter

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Haunted Editors: A Tete-a-tete with Ellen Datlow

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Thief of Dreams: An Interview with Jeet Thayil

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Ascent

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Estranged

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Translation: ‘A Complaint’ by Hassan Dars

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Translation: ‘The Gift of Death’ by Nabarun Bhattacharya

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Translation: ‘In Hope They Trust’ by Chandramathi

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Translation: It Isn’t An Extraordinary Thing by Afzal Ahmed Syed

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The Leopard

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Chasing Shahrukh Khan

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Silk

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Poem for the First Week of January

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Doused

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Schadenfreude

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Here

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Clockwork Scratches

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The Seven-ty-hundred-thousand Year(?) Itch

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Interview

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Commonwealth Games

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A Sense of Loss

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Volume 12

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