Manan Ahmed Asif is a historian of South Asia who works on space, narratives and the city. He is working on, among other things, a conquest narrative from the thirteenth century Uch Sharif. He walks in New York.
Manan Ahmed Asif
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A Matriarch in Exile
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. The Matriarch—it would be impolite to utter or print her given name—is from the town of Dina in Punjab, Pakistan. She lives in Jackson Heights. Punjabi is her only language. She has been in exile, she says, for […]
