Yasir Shah,who works in Public Health and lives in Washington DC, was twenty-one when his first novel Shrine (2008) was published in Pakistan; it was later adapted as a television film.
Kiratpur: a city hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of miles away from Islamabad. A small, modest city – from what I hear – in the Bijnur district of UP, India, where people gladly drink goat’s milk and eat only khaalis ghee and paneer.