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Short Story

A World of Dreams

Xoheb Sheikh   Feb 7, 2006   interacts: 8

No dream is not worth having. No dream is distant. The only thing that separates us from our dreams is

Awards

indra chopra   Feb 3, 2006   interacts: 0

How awards are loosing their sheen.

Poetry

Ao Ab Anjam Likhain

Sohail Abdullah   Feb 3, 2006   interacts: 0

Satire

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Ras Siddiqui   Feb 2, 2006   interacts: 11

A concerned Brooks confides in his wife that he did once visit an Al Qaeda website for just 5 minutes

Satire

Beating The Retreat

Veeresh Malik   Jan 27, 2006   interacts: 44

This is one function where everybody who is anybody in Delhi, regardless of security, is present. Out in the open.

Narrative

The Kingdumb of Far Far Away…

Adil Mulki   Jan 24, 2006   interacts: 3

Divide and Rule I say. Every king in history has been exploiting the diversity of this land to Divide and

Poetry

Distorted Image of the Untrue Self

Mariam Shah   Jan 24, 2006   interacts: 3

Break free from the chains
The chains I let others bind me with
Tying me up tighter, and closing in still

Satire

Is the Mumbai Swarm Thinning?

Sunil K Poolani   Jan 21, 2006   interacts: 4

The clasp of tightening bodies on suburban trains started easing, and the space between flesh and flesh increased. It took

A Sculptor of Parachutes: Naga Diary 1

Harish Nambiar   Jan 13, 2006   interacts: 7

True or otherwise, this story is a metaphor for all the issues that coalesce into what the Naga situation is.

An Alternative Spelling of Eed

Hamzaad    Jan 10, 2006   interacts: 144

Ibrahim snatched the boy out of his mother’s arm and hurried up the hill. Suddenly, he was told by the

Satire

Finding My Feet in London

Ibrahim M Khalil   Jan 10, 2006   interacts: 12

In Pakistan, when someone did not go straight home from work, it was assumed that he was having trouble with

Short Story

Dreams Swindle

Jamal M Syed   Jan 10, 2006   interacts: 5

He saw himself and Sana, with collected stones in their hands, flying through the clouds. The dream went on. He

Poetry

Weaving...Sailing - Two poems

Alberto Ceras   Jan 10, 2006   interacts: 6

My lips shrill
Against the tumult’s rise
Yet I am whole
A man still


Satire

Urban India -- The NRI Viewpoint

Rakesh Mani   Jan 3, 2006   interacts: 23

Perhaps this wave of westernization and erosion of culture and values is limited to a few, a solitary

Poetry

My Dudley!

Asmaa Mahmood   Jan 3, 2006   interacts: 45

Not fair that I have to marry a bloody Raza guy, when I wanted to marry a Hugh Jackman or

Short Story

Asma and Aruna

Anjali Purohit   Jan 3, 2006   interacts: 6

The two girls were growing in different directions. Aruna could not write to Asma about what she was reading, thinking,

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