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Long-form essays on craft — endings, beginnings, revision, voice, and tradition.
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Tradition
A craft essay on the marsiya — its musaddas structure, the discipline of restraint at its core, and the household voice the form has carried since Mir Anis.
Tradition
An editorial look at how devotional poems hold their subjects in respect — across Sufi, Bhakti, and household traditions — without sliding into either sentiment or distance.