Taha Kehar  

Taha Kehar is a novelist, journalist and literary critic. A law graduate from SOAS, London, Kehar is the author of two novels, “Typically Tanya” (HarperCollins India, 2018) and “Of Rift and Rivalry” (Palimpsest Publishers, 2014). He is the co-editor of “The Stained-Glass Window: Stories of the Pandemic from Pakistan”. Kehar has served as the head of Peshawar city pages and bi-monthly books page of ‘The Express Tribune’, and worked as an assistant editor on the op-ed desk at ‘The News’. Kehar’s essays, reviews and commentaries have been published in ‘The News on Sunday’, ‘The Hindu’ and ‘South Asia’ magazine and his short fiction has appeared in the Delhi-based quarterly ‘The Equator Line’, the biannual journal ‘Pakistani Literature’ and the OUP anthology “I’ll Find My Way”. Two of his short stories appeared in an anthology titled “The Banyan and Her Roots”, which has been edited by the British writer Jad Adams. In 2016, he guest-edited ‘Pakistan: After the Stereotypes’ – an issue of ‘The Equator Line’ – that focused on new writing from Pakistan. Kehar curates ‘Tales from Karachi: City of Words’, an Instagram e-anthology that publishes flash fiction from and about Karachi. He recently compiled and edited the first print anthology of the initiative titled “Tales from Karachi” (Moringa, 2021). Based in Karachi, he teaches undergraduate media courses and has just completed a post-modern detective novel.