The burden of belonging to this land on August 18, 2018I remember Rashid Rehman reciting an Urdu couplet by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib when a mutual friend asked him to be careful in these testing times. It was some months before Rehman’s death. Helooked her in the eyes and said smilingly: “Zamana sakht kum aazaar tha ba-jan-i-Asad/Wagarna hum to tawaqqo ziyada rakhtey thay” (time has […]