Works of honour

Iqbal's great work is the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, and it is one of the world's undiscovered classics

The flat is being renovated, sort of, and that is a pain because some of the bookshelves must be moved, and there is all the noise and disturbing the neighbours. On the credit side, the bits that need moving are the shelves that house works that I haven’t gone through in a long time — the works on Pakistan. And so this un-shelving and then replacing has given the opportunity to handle and, therefore, reacquaint oneself with these works. Let us have a look at what is being carted around.

The first set, right at the bottom because it is rarely