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In a land far from home : a Bengali in Afghanistan

Ālī, Saiẏada Mujatabā, 1904-19742022
Syed Mujtaba Ali travelled from colonial India to take up a teaching post in Afghanistan in 1927. He lived for two years in Kabul, documenting the life of the city, and befriended everyone from his loyal manservant Abdur Rahman to the king's brother. But peace didn't last long: in 1929 a tribal u...
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