The Indian National Pact – 1923
Multiple attempts were made to snatch back what was lost. In this essay, we will look at the first of those attempts.
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Chapter Four: The Interrogation
Realising he could finally get some answers out of the mysterious Mr Daim, Captain Robertson put down the menu, crossing his arms, “so, according to you, genies are real?”
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Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson: A Review
Whenever I think of modern Islamic literature and fiction, this is what will come to mind.
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Chapter Three: The Body
It wasn’t uncommon to see unnamed labourers lying dead in unmarked alleyways. What was uncommon, however, was the nature in which this particular labourer met his fate.
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Chapter Two: The Meeting
It was from these very rooms Britannia commanded her vast empire. Mr Daim was about to enter the belly of the beast.
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Chapter One: The Voyage
This wasn’t the first time Mr Daim found himself voyaging halfway across the world. The nature of his work had taken him all over the globe, from the imperial courts of Peking to the dense jungle forests of the Amazon.
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I Stared at the Night of the City by Bakhtiyar Ali: A Review
The book had such a profound impact on my own ideas about the power of the imagination that I’d go as far as to include it in my personal canon.
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Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh: A Review
Its social commentary provides insight into rural Punjabi life (in all its glorious vulgarities) and highlights the real human impacts of Partition.
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The Non-cooperation Movement – 1920-1924
By appealing to both Muslims and Hindus’ religious sentiments, Gandhi was able to rile up the Indian masses in opposition to British rule. So how did Jinnah – “the best ambassador of Hindu–Muslim Unity”– react to all this?
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