Mansoor Shikoh (منصور شُکوہ) writes in Urdu about what he has seen up close: hunger beside wealth, faith turned into a weapon, grief inside his own home.

He has spent years reading psychology and the spiritual traditions, studying both belief and disbelief, and he trusts neither easy faith nor easy denial. He seeks to see the world unveiled, beneath the coverings of habit, comfort and fear, and to name what he finds without ornament.

He is the author of Naya Shikwa, a musaddas and a feature film.