Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in Delhi. His mother is a self-made lawyer and her new husband a wealthy industrialist. But there is a marked absence in Rehan's life: his father, Sahil Tabassum, who remains a powerful shadow across the border in Pakistan. This story follows Rehan's attempts to negotiate this loss.
Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in Delhi. His mother is a self-made lawyer and her new husband a wealthy industrialist. But there ...
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure. It was a fractured upbringing which left Aatish with many questions about his own identity.
Stranger to History is the story of the journey Aatish made to try to understand what it means to be Muslim in the twenty-first century. Starting from Istanbul, Islam's once greatest city, he travels to Mecca, its most holy, and then home through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in...
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father,...
