White

A lone tear escapes her eye. And burns a trail down my cheek.

Bovinity

I politely asked the strange being in a language which it could easily understand to reduce the volume. It said:

Poetry

The Quest

“Amman can you tell me who my real mother was?” Nazish asked gazing at the wall in front of her.

My Life Story

When I close my eyes in solitude and think about the goings-on in my life during the past 17 years,

Images

It is almost 8 evening in Mississauga.I am walking outside. There is an urge to get out the house and

Al-Qaeda In My House

After two days of intense negotiations more like US-India nuclear talks that failed, our negotiations bore fruit. We decided that

Translations

The Seasons

Versified version of an Urdu story by Farhatullah Beg

He and She

She ran after him and they looked like two small kids playing in the water.

He Dared to Call His Own

He screamed and he screamed, until he was certain his lungs were forced empty of fury intermingling with paining love.

Translations

One Wall

Hidden in silence
Surrounded by one wall

Poetry

The Horse and The Zebra

“Do you know the most important difference between a horse and a zebra?” Shazi asked me after the first drag

Meeting Poet Ahmad Faraz

What do you say when you meet what many consider the greatest living poetic craftsman of the Urdu

Poetry

Artificial Rains

According to metrology people the monsoons had halted at Allahabad for more than usual leaving Delhi parched and thirsty.

Poetry

Shades of Mendacity

“Emma, we have a 7.30 flight to catch. I hope all is packed and ready”, Jacques voice was visibly loud

Why Atif Aslam works

'If the color blue could take a voice, it would be that of Atif Aslam'

Sunshine, Smiles and Flowers

A small rectangular album fell in my lap as I pulled out the dusty box resting in the innermost corner