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Manahil Tahira

Manahil Tahira is a journalist and critic based in Karachi. They write about film, culture, and sexuality. A columnist at Dunya Digital and Non-Fiction Editor at South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG) magazine, their work has appeared in Little White Lies, The Express Tribune, and elsewhere. When they are not writing, they are busy parenting three cats.

Current Issue, Issue 6

A Pakistani Afterlife for Les Misérables

by Manahil Tahira August 6, 2026 0

What arrives in Salakhain is therefore not quite the novel but its afterlife: a familiar arrangement of misfortune and moral arithmetic portable enough to cross... Read more.