My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.
From Mohsin Hamid
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.
Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.
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