If We Try To 'protect

All Human Stories Are Migration Stories Because Everyone Is A Refugee From Their Own Childhood.

So In Many Ways, The Bombing At The End Of This Year And The Terrorist Attack Of Last Year In Peshawar Have Bookended Both Those Years In A Very Unfortunate Way. But At A Bigger Picture Since, The Impression In Pakistan Is That Things Are Actually Improving On The Terrorism Front Quite Dramatically.

Only In Novels Can We Take Another Human Being Into Our Head And Create Something Jointly.

I Think Writing Is A Very Political Act. I Think That Any Writer Who Says It's Not, Is Simply A Writer Who Is Disavowing The Political Connotations Of What They Write.

If Your Sense Of Self Is Destabilised, To Imagine Being Another Becomes Pretty Easy.