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In his new book, Tell Her Everything, author Mirza Waheed explores the complex nature of morality.

Having worked in various Indian cities after leaving his hometown, Srinagar, the writer Mirza Waheed moved to London a couple of decades ago to work for the BBC World Service. It was, as immigration goes, a painless transition. Working at the World Service's famous Bush House headquarters, a heritage building that housed, at one point or another, the likes of George

Orwell, V.S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and countless others, Waheed's London was cosmopolitan, almost absurdly polyglot, a plausible world capital. "I loved the town,"

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