"Until members of this numerically small but virile obstinate and deeply religious community, can (like British Cathol…"

"Their houses were plundered, wealth destroyed, their heads shaven, urinated upon, publicly paraded, jeered upon, beat…"

"They told me further, that some years after this book of Naneek Shah had been promulgated, another made its appearanc…"

"The Bodhisatta was once the youngest of one hundred sons of the king of Benares. He heard from the Pacceka Buddhas, w…"

"But just below appearances in Karachi, below what was easily graspable, was the faith, and the fever of the faith, wh…"

"Karachi at its worst is a Karachi unconcerned with people who exist outside the storyteller’s circle, a Karachi obliv…"

"Islamabad, “the city of Islam,” the capital of Pakistan, was new. It had been built about twenty years before by a mi…"

"Nothing definitive is recorded about the town’s first settlers. In the 3rd century AD, Kanishka, the Buddhist ruler o…"

"Those who represented the reformist sector of the Singh Sabha movement came to be known as the Tat Khalsa (the ‘True …"

"Long after the monsoons cease in the plains of northern India and half the lunar year is over, there comes the widely…"