CM Naim

CM Naim
CM Naim

C.M. Naim is Professor Emeritus, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. His recent book A Most Noble Life (Orient Blackswan, 2021) is about two remarkable Muslim women of the 19th century.

India’s Urdu Press: A Bitter-Sweet Bicentenary

In the past 75 years a community of Urdu magazines that used to be read by the entire family has disappeared unmourned, so too their journalists and readers. There is also now no major Urdu newspaper…
▶01-Feb-2023
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A Child’s Prayer

The outcry in Bareilly last month over students singing an Iqbal poem reminds us that we live in a hyper-nationalist time, where leaders glorify territorial nationalism beyond measure and…
▶04-Jan-2023
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Our Brother’s Keepers

The protesters at Shaheen Bagh have built a solidarity that has not been derived from some legal or religious text but is drawn from their own direct experience. They say in their own plain fashion:…
▶26-Feb-2020
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