Thoughts of a Bibliophile
Kabir AltafMusic, Theater, Literature, South Asia, Middle East
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Review: Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano Mysteries
One of my guilty pleasures is that I read police procedurals to relax1. Though they are certainly not high art, these novels are paradoxically comforting– despite the violence they contain– since the reader knows that the mystery will be so...
Review: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
This review was first published on my personal blog in August 2021
The Other Black Girl— Zakiya Dalila Harris’s debut novel– is a cross between a thriller and a comedy of manners. Set in the New York City publishing world– a notoriously W...
British India was not a nation-state
This essay was originally published on Brown Pundits on May 2, 2026. I am cross-posting it here with some edits.
The essay was written in response to a comment by a commenter named “Calvin” on a post entitled India is the successor state...
Deepa Mehta as Auteur
This piece was originally written for an Intro to Film Studies course at George Washington University.
In his 1954 essay “A Certain Tendency in French cinema”, the founder of auteur theory, French filmmaker Francois Truffaut, argued passi...
A Comparison of the Representation of India and Indians in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Bride and Prejudice
This essay was originally written for an undergraduate course at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) entitled “Culture, Media and Representation”. If I recall correctly, the two films under review were chosen by the instruct...
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Pakistani-American. Musician trained in Hindustani (North Indian) classical music. M.Mus Ethnomusicology, SOAS University of London. My dissertation was on the decline of Hindustani music in Pakistan.
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