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Manan Kapoor

Manan Kapoor is a writer based in New Delhi. His debut novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Award in 2017. His second book, a biography of Agha Shahid Ali, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

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As news leaks of India’s forced communications blackout in Kashmir, the work of poet Agha Shahid Ali is tragically timely—both its depiction of Kashmiri suffering and the poet’s attempt to imagine a better future for his home.
Manan Kapoor

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