Who Gets Written Into History: Tarana Husain Khan on The Courtesan, Her Lover and I

History remembers poets. But what happens to the women history leaves behind?In this episode of The Reading List, we sit down with Tarana Husain Khan to discuss her latest novel, The Courtesan, Her Lover and I, inspired by the real-life story of Urdu poet Dagh Dehlvi and the courtesan, artist, and poet Munni Bai Hijab.We explore how Hijab has been remembered, the silences that still surround her life, the care it takes to reconstruct someone whose story survives only in fragments, and the delicate balance between history and fiction.This is a conversation about love, memory, storytelling, and what it means to write someone back into history.