Zohreen Murtaza – The “Undead” in an Era of Ecocide

The opening pages of Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s novel “Bahao” (Flow) describe the last flight of a bird that is desperately clinging for life as it searches for water. Teetering between life and death, delirium and dream, pain- induced haze and half-formed memory, it still attempts to map out the contours of the parched landscape below. […]