‘To A Young Woman’ advises young women not to be a hostage to their beauty or male privilege in society.

Malcolm’s Muslim identity was undoubtedly important to him, as was pan-African solidarity.

Chander’s fiction asked an important question:Why are Pakistan and India bent on pulling Kashmir into their...

While it talks of the same, now-deceased King Abdullah, it is thus a witty dismissal of Saudi expansionism in Pakistan

Manto envisaged a future where music, art and even Iqbal's poetry is censored to create, literally, a ‘Pak-istan’.

"They did not tell you a secret, just told you that you are going to Korea to protect the rights of American people."

Note Manto’s lack of total obeisance when he castigates Iqbal for his pandering to monarchs.