Negotiating Womanhood and South Asian Nationalisms: Blurring Borders and Identities in Social Media

When a leading journalist and intellectual like M.J. Akbar, who also happens to be an Indian Muslim, suggests there is no difference between India and Pakistan, a closer look is required. Any imagination of India and Pakistan is wholly informed by difference – the two separate nation-states are articulated and embodied by the borders that are largely assumed to create lines of division that fragment people and spaces on the basis of religion and other differentiations. As Homi Bhabha has argued, the dominant master narrative seems to be the “language of those who write of it” (1); the master narrative