Daak Vaak

A whimsical poem-letter on the unparalleled pleasures of the mango fruit.

These letters to the United States blend political satire with personal tragedy in Manto's typical style.

Anne Ranasinghe’s life followed a tumultuous path from her birth into a Jewish family in Germany, to her escape from the Nazi rule to England where she met and married a Sri Lankan professor, ultimately moving to Sri Lanka and making it her home. Her poems often dealt with…

In August 1968, amidst the fervour of the Cultural Revolution, Pakistan sent its first crate of mangoes as a diplomatic gift to Chairman Mao Zedong. Mian Arshad Hussain, the then Foreign Minister of Pakistan and former High Commissioner to India in Beijing, presented the…