I Thought I Heard You Laughing

Unlike most people I know, I don't believe in love at first sight. But the world being as mad as

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My Brother, My Killer

See you not me, as of your own
See you not me, as of your kind
See you not me,

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Remembering You

Gleaming, glistening tears lay frozen,
on shy and curling lashes,
I've reached a vivid tombstone
of friendship, love

Sunset at Uluwatu

Anjali and I had spent the afternoon in Tanjong Benoa. A small touristy cove off the Southern End of Bali,

Poetry

Delirium Diary

Somebody is at the door, ringing the bell so hard that it seems the walls of this room will collapse.

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Bean Bag

In the days gone,
when the hide was soft.
The brilliant leather gleamed,
and invited tender touch.

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Remembering Old Clifton Top

Qasim Bagh, anybody? With all the sounds of gunfire and deafening crescendo of siren wails??!!

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Me, not you

Thousand times I have stared
At existence of you and mine
Of what we are and have become

In Remembrance of Martyrdom

A translation of the Urdu elegy “Zikr e Shahadat” by Mawlana Hassan Raza Khan

Short Stories

Surplus Majors and Jerk Chicken

Yesterday, when I went to collect my monthly dole from my local council, the officer in charge was apologetic, ‘Sorry

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Sounds from Within

Walking in the woods today
I talked loud and low,
To the ever listening trees
I said my silent

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A Life Created

Responsibility for a miracle,
another life, another hope
another start, a new beginning
a fresh Phoenix has risen.

Kibera Inside and Outside

Bullets inside my head
And hunger outside me
I am a little child
My mother gone

Interviewing Ayman

I came across the “hilarious news” that Al Qaeda would be now conducting an open interview. Yes my

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I thirst

I will shed this wretched skin
shred it, peel it, skin myself

The Landlady

Why do we exercise our right to hate so much more often than the right to love, anyway?