Half Alive Again: An Evening At Zawia Dahmaani
Prashant Bhatt Nov 3, 2009 interacts: 2A 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: 20Reima 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: 12Hoisting 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: 7The 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: 14I 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: 158The 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: 46It 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: 5During 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: 47Many 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: 5The 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: 0He 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: 6Bala 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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