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Half Alive Again: An Evening At Zawia Dahmaani

Prashant Bhatt   Nov 3, 2009   interacts: 2

A piece from Tripoli, where there are tombs of soldiers from the subcontinent. Just as every country has a “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” every

Reima's Taj Mahal

Shakuntala Rao   Oct 28, 2009   interacts: 20

Reima Ismic was a slim, dark-haired woman in her forties, with thin wrists and bony hands, she always wore a light colored scarf around her

If The Dead Could Talk

Mazhar Butt   Oct 26, 2009   interacts: 3

Can you hear the crackling of his bones?
Can you hear the sound of his bleak skull?
Can you hear the shriek of his departed

Serenade to the Sleepless

Sonya Rehman   Oct 26, 2009   interacts: 12

Hoisting her basket back on her head, Ayesha turned around, and looked over at the other side of the road, to the brick wall, where

Driving Through Poetry

Razia Husain   Oct 25, 2009   interacts: 7

The floor was carpeted with fresh fallen leaves of all colors, rustling as I walked over them. Ah! There it is, my tree! The top

Access Denied

Asra Nadeem   Oct 15, 2009   interacts: 14

I was fascinated with graveyards as a kid and my grandmother always said that Muslim women should not go to graveyards because dead people can

The White Rose

Aisha Sarwari   Oct 12, 2009   interacts: 158

The wedding night came and went. My routine didn’t change. I couldn’t let the boys down. Would I stop loving cars, stop drinking; stop making

The End Of An Affair

Taji M   Oct 9, 2009   interacts: 46

It seemed like the most beautiful day of Nazia’s life. The man who had stolen her heart had finally asked her to marry him. She

Afghan Widows

Mazhar Butt   Oct 6, 2009   interacts: 15

Amazed not be at the sex they sell
for their survival,
for more or less, where isn't it sold,
can anyone tell?

Tree of Life

Sarah Zahid   Sep 29, 2009   interacts: 5

During those days the paint of the left wall was blistered. If you scratched it a bit, you could smell saline walls with odor of

Two Tears in a Bucket

Padash    Sep 15, 2009   interacts: 304

Call it a need for closure or an innate obstinacy, but this column my dear friends, is going to be

That Peculiar Feeling Of Falling Out Of Love

Taji M   Sep 13, 2009   interacts: 47

Many will try to find imaginary faults in the partner; saner individuals will introspect into their own minds. It is scary and confusing, but the

Rain

raghav chopra   Sep 10, 2009   interacts: 0

I Walked on water
Shards of broken glass rained from the sky
I walked through puddles of blood

The Winter Goodbyes

Salman Latif   Sep 1, 2009   interacts: 5

The night's blanket prevailed pregnant with unsaid things and ripe of the unspeakable syllables of his gloom.

Rolling Back By 42 Years

Anand Mahajan   Aug 28, 2009   interacts: 0

He was standing near the policed barrier that is zero point for reaching Ram Janam Bhoomi Garbh Sthal- the idyllic piece of land where Lord

Bala’s Hair

Ayesha Umar   Aug 28, 2009   interacts: 6

Bala was forty and still single. He had never seen a woman with eyes that were bound to make him fall in love. Love seemed

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