Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.

All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.

Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.