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Novellete

The Rock Star and the Mullahs

Bina Shah   Jul 9, 2004   interacts: 51

Salman Ahmed is a man on a mission: to challenge Pakistan’s hardline mullahs on why they believe music is not

A Conversation With Abdullah Hussein (Part One)

Rehan Ansari   Dec 26, 2000   interacts: 58

Udaas Naslein is a novel I have heard about as I would a rumour.

Cactus Gas

Nadeem F Paracha   Aug 16, 2004   interacts: 67

Rajan. That’s what my alcoholic father used to scream every time the pathetic man wanted his trembling drags tensely

The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses

Subroto Roy   Dec 28, 2002   interacts: 33

Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art

Habib Wali Mohammad

Anis Shakur   Sep 13, 2003   interacts: 27

He came to be known as the Taan Sen in his college.

Translation

Sometimes…

Asif Naqshbandi   Jan 10, 2005   interacts: 47

A translation of Sahir Ludhiyanvi’s Urdu poem, “Kabhi Kabhi”

Short Story

We, The Fake

anNy    Nov 11, 2001   interacts: 78

where you feel ugly and poor if you have no flesh on display

Satire

The Girl from Napoli

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 7, 2004   interacts: 48

Al Ghazzali said that it is impossible to describe the pleasures of orgasm to an impotent man no matter

Reshma: Voice of Mother Earth

V Ramaswamy   Jul 16, 1999   interacts: 9

The voice of Reshma is the voice of Mother Earth

Short Story

His Gift

Bina Shah   Sep 8, 1999   interacts: 63

He knew things without knowing how he knew them.

The Abu Ghraib Scandal: Who’s Shame is it?

Laila Kazmi   May 22, 2004   interacts: 99

As a Pakistani-American, it is especially difficult to watch this war between “good” and “evil.” On the one hand, our

Short Story

Love Affair

Amrita Rajan   Feb 27, 2006   interacts: 89

She looked at him skeptically. “You fell in love with the ‘real’ me? My inner beauty bedazzled you?” He was

Truth Hurts

Hira Nabi   Sep 18, 2002   interacts: 80

Ironic. Our indigenous culture is now being imported.

Poetry

The Falcon’s Hearth

Umair Raja   Dec 22, 2004   interacts: 103

'Speak! for your lips are free,' as a bird
Speak! if you don't, you'll never be heard

Ali G and his Bling - Bling

Mohammad Gill   May 9, 2003   interacts: 23

The first time I came across Ali G was in.....

Poetry

Illusion Begets Magic

Aisha Sarwari   Mar 26, 2001   interacts: 76

What they felt at that space and time

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