Author name: Kashif Farooqi

Kashif Farooqi is a development practitioner with more than 18 years of experience working on social inclusion, community participation, and engagement with marginalised groups across development initiatives in Pakistan. His academic background is in folkloristics and applied heritage studies, and he is currently pursuing doctoral research in archive and memory studies at Government College University Lahore. His writing explores how memory, storytelling, and public symbols shape social belonging in contemporary South Asia.