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LOVE IN THE TIME OF HATE In the Mirror of Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil SIMON & SCHUSTER ₹699; 264 pages

hiva’s body is “like a glittering sapphire”, he is “knowledge, nectar, action”, the “Granter of Salvation”: these encomiums appear in three

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