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Cross-Border Spiritualism

In a Pakistani writer’s spiritual search, the sacred helps transcend hate

Annie Ali Khan offers us a most strange and wondrous book wherein she travels to various shrines in and around Karachi, both Muslim and Hindu. She draws our attention, for example, to the strongly rooted worship of Durga in Hinglaj, Balochistan. The temple there is one of several shakti

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