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Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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Musharraf Ali Farooqi

MICROTALK ESSAYS

The following 25 articles were published in LiveMint from October 2013 to August 2016, as the MICROTALK series of essays on South Asian folk- and mystical lore.

The Horoscope of Imagination

(05 Oct 2013)

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Love and Death’s Door

(08 Nov 2013)

Lives In Minuscule Time

(14 Dec 2013)

An Hour of Afterlife

(11 Jan 2014)

Men of Many Parts

(15 Feb 2014)

Shifting Destiny to Dream

(15 Mar 2014)

The Curse of Curiosity

(12 Apr 2014)

A King Meets His Dead Self

(03 May 2014)

The Wicked and the Wronged

(14 Jun 2014)

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The Trickster's Bride

(12 Jul 2014)

The Cannibal King

(16 August 2014)

King Solomon and the Ogress

(13 Sep 2014)

Man of Gold

(11 Oct 2014)

Familial Cannibalism

(29 Nov 2014)

The Female Goblins

(10 Jan 2015)

The Sindhi Sohni Mahiwal

(28 Feb 2015)

The Language of Glances

(18 April 2015)

The Magician's Spirit

(23 May 2015)

The Perseus of Maldives

(25 Jul 2015)

The One-Eyed Yeti

(05 Sep 2015)

The Jinn of Lahore

(02 Jan 2016 )

The Sea Jinn of Karachi

(27 Feb 2016)

The Prayer of the Dogs

(01 Apr 2016)

Lord Curzon and King Solomon’s Throne

(20 May 2016)

Khandola of Black Magic

(05 Aug 2016)

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