Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu
Author: Rakhshanda Jalil
Publisher: Simon & Schuster India
Pages: 264
Price: Rs 699
“When push comes to shove in the New India that is Bharat, not even speaking English will give me an exit pass if a mob baying for Muslim blood were to gherao me. All my so-called privileges can be brought to naught by a crowd of lumpens. This realisation is chilling,” writes Rakhshanda Jalil in her new book Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu.
The author, translator and literary historian, who is an authority on Urdu literature,