Ahmed Ali: the borders of language

<strong>By Mehr Afshan Farooqi</strong>

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<strong>The writer is assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian literature at the University of Virginia. Her edited volume on Ahmed Ali, <i>The Two Sided Canvas: Perspectives on Ahmed Ali</i>, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.</strong>

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Unpredictably, Ahmed Ali’s birth centenary year (2010) ignited more than cursory interest in his work. The peculiar thing about such

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