Articles with tag: CHILDREN
The Cry of Karachi
Fatima Mirza Sep 12, 2008 interacts: 18“this is a city that can cry, look even the walls have become tears, I don’t know any other sea that is so distant.” I told you, sometimes I can’t let go.
The Pink Side of Disney
Amna Chaudhry Aug 14, 2008 interacts: 2Like Hannah, Barbie too had an ideal life. Except Barbie was a mere toy and that meant the endings to her stories were left to the imagination of the youthful owner.
We Can Make a Difference
Bhaskar Dasgupta Jun 30, 2008 interacts: 5They are the children who have been abandoned, have run away from abusive homes, were orphaned or simply got lost.
Child Interrupted
ehsan syed Jan 14, 2008 interacts: 3The boy who blew himself in Dera Ismail Khan last Muharram was hardly 17 years old. Still a child, legally speaking, dying a violent death, martyr to some, and terrorist to others.
Kibera Inside and Outside
kashkin dabruski Jan 5, 2008Bullets inside my head
And hunger outside me
I am a little child
My mother gone
My mother, me and my daughter
farheen zehra Aug 27, 2007 interacts: 10There comes a moment in everyone’s life when a door bell or a telephone call changes everything.
Child Prostitution in Arizona
Sidra Omer Mar 22, 2007 interacts: 3Although the Task Force is focusing its efforts on the supply, mainly prostitutes and pimps, there’s a practical problem of how to help these children.
Fruits of Western Civilisation
Afaq Ali Dec 11, 2006 interacts: 13The first psychiatrist he saw, at age 7, decided after a 20-minute visit that the boy was suffering from depression.
Jihad and Chicken Pox
Khalid Bhatti Oct 25, 2006 interacts: 45I was hardly thirteen and had two problems. Firstly, I was continuously embarrassed by the hard thing in my thighs that always gave away itself in lose Shalwar Qameez, and secondly what to do during long vacation that are to follow the 8th class board exa
familiar junction/beggars galore/avert eyes/ignore ignore
Mariam Shoaib Dec 6, 2005Reality hits as traffic lurches to a start.
The Buddha is Smiling
Bhaskar Dasgupta Jul 26, 2005 interacts: 22An orphan’s curse would drag to hell
Why Not Adopt
Ghazal Mir Apr 10, 2005 interacts: 31What I would like to tell people who fear they cannot do justice to an adopted child is to have a better opinion of themselves.
Lahore Street Scene
Tauheed Ahmed Apr 5, 2005 interacts: 34On a hot summers day I see
A child cross the melting street
A load on her head
And no shoes on her feet
Corporal Punishment
Kinza Farhan Mar 22, 2005 interacts: 25The moment a child is admitted to school, he or she starts serving a sentence of corporal punishment and verbal abuse. No doubt, every child today is somehow affected by violence and abuse at home, on the streets, in the media
The Olive Trees
storyteller May 21, 2004 interacts: 17On our way to Khan Yunus we had seen thousands and thousands of trees that had been cut down. Olive trees. The trees of peace.
What Cats Dream
Shandana Minhas Jan 21, 2004 interacts: 37Inspector Duffy-u-Din Bangash of the FIA (Feline Investigation Agency) versus Bhooki Aloo (It was her passion for crime, that made her a household name.)
Monsoon Days
Bina Shah Jul 6, 2003 interacts: 137The woman on the television tells us it’s raining in India. This means the monsoon will come to Pakistan soon. You only have to see the satellite map on television to understand the Siamese nature of South Asian weather.
I’m With Stupid
Haroon Moghul Jul 3, 2003 interacts: 6thought to myself, as I searched for the right kind of chocolate fudge cake, that I was now living in an ascendant empire, the most powerful country on earth and perhaps in all of human history. An empire!
Broken-Hearts, Dream-Filled eyes
Hamid Mahmood Jul 2, 2003 interacts: 42You see them everywhere. You see them on the roadside begging, or in a waste dump collecting worthy trash, or bringing you hot cooked food on a roadside restaurant, or trying to sell you roses or a cheap bouquet at a traffic signal. They are everywhere.
The Conversion Chiaroscuro
Farzana Versey Jun 30, 2003 interacts: 131Didi became a Hindu. Long before the RSS and the Pope got into a tiff about conversions. At that time it meant nothing to me.
Spare Us The Smoke, Please!
Madiha Waris May 26, 2003 interacts: 52non-smokers seriously need to start realizing their right to health and safety
How to kill your Wife (Unedited)
malik khar May 26, 2003 interacts: 74for killing women, a plethora of options are available
Takht-e-Bahi
Saima Khan May 10, 2003 interacts: 15Takht-e-Bahi is famed for the quality of the kebabs available here.
The Educationist
Zafar Anjum May 7, 2003 interacts: 10When Mr. S, the educationist, came to the village of monkeys, a murmur spread all across that he has brought along something very strange and interesting.
Air Cdre Rizwanullah Khan Shaheed Memorial Trust
Samina Rizwan May 4, 2003 interacts: 26how will we make sure that the contribution to this world happens anyway, in the name of the dearly departed
My Beautiful Rizwan
Samina Rizwan Apr 5, 2003 interacts: 79Such was the overpowering presence in my life, of Rizwan - my husband, my friend, my soulmate, my shaheed.
Protest March on the 30th of March (no pun intended!)
Hira Nabi Mar 31, 2003 interacts: 28We call ourselves citizens of the world.
French Fries vs Freedom Fries
gullu gullu Mar 18, 2003 interacts: 65’One tuna wrap and one coke. Would you like a side order of freedom fries with it?’
Under the Hill (part 1)
Abdullah Arian Mar 10, 2003 interacts: 8Do not enter, for you may not like what you will find...
The New Jews
Bina Shah Mar 8, 2003 interacts: 173In this world, where Muslims are the new Jews, where Pakistanis are terrorists, visa cheaters and total bastards, What am I?
Travels through America - Deep Thoughts
Nazar Khan Mar 5, 2003 interacts: 44Finally, it was one sight that took my heart and left a lasting impression on me of the beauty and simple innocence of a human being...
Expectation
Haroon Moghul Mar 1, 2003 interacts: 23The desi family has all the identity of a post-colonial nationality
Who Wants Peace, BAYBEH?
Farzana Versey Feb 27, 2003 interacts: 36Buy and sell what you saw yesterday--Even a model of a burning train.
Ramblings On the Fence
Jawahara Saidullah Feb 19, 2003 interacts: 44Searching for your realities in a melting pot.
An Interview with Govind Nihalani
Zafar Anjum Feb 16, 2003 interacts: 9For Hindi film buffs, Govind Nihalani needs no introduction.
Almost Dead
arunima sengupta Feb 7, 2003 interacts: 8maybe 'art of living' classes are good things afterall
A Day In The Bazaar
Sobia Aslam Feb 3, 2003 interacts: 29The young boy bumping into her made her mad, madder than she had ever been, but he escaped on his bicycle, grinning, that little bastard.
Life with Wife
Nazar Khan Jan 22, 2003 interacts: 38The only mysteries left in each other's anatomy are perhaps lungs and liver.
Tying The Knot - Village Style
Nazar Khan Jan 8, 2003 interacts: 61maids who can conveniently meet their boyfriends
Serendipity in Sri Lanka
Shabbo Shabbo Jan 4, 2003 interacts: 12I’m a tourist again, but this time in the comfort of my own country, and the time frame of more than thirteen days.
Antarctica
Quinton Zondervan Jan 2, 2003 interacts: 7Once again the world was engulfed in war. For what reasons no one knew, least of which the soldiers, for the reasons had been so contrived and ill supported that they were also soon forgotten.
The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses
Subroto Roy Dec 28, 2002 interacts: 33Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art
Documentarians Hope to Enlighten Americans about Prophet
Richard Scheinin Dec 24, 2002 interacts: 138the program provides a more balanced explanation of Muhammad's prophetic message of justice and mercy
Musings Of A Suspected Terrorist
Beynaam Badshah Dec 20, 2002 interacts: 168I admit I have hated America...but there is another side to this story.
Sohail Rana: Musings on music
Anis Shakur Nov 26, 2002 interacts: 31His adorers are surrounded by a lifetime of numerous memories of his immortal compositions.
The Gray Cotton Shawl
Hamidah Hemani Nov 21, 2002 interacts: 22Kashmira is the bastard child of Pakeezah and Indir.
The Endangered Species
Bina Shah Nov 15, 2002 interacts: 146I’m just waiting for the day when South Asian women are added to the WWF’s endangered species list.
The Sad Reality of Arranged Marriages in South Asia
Aqdas Afzal Nov 2, 2002 interacts: 165Arranged Marriages are Racist and prevent Social Mobility
A Captain's Dream
Mohan S Chabba Oct 31, 2002 interacts: 4I met up with Mohan, an old friend going back to our days as cadets under
Perfect Women. Imperfect Men
Nafees Ghaznavi Oct 24, 2002 interacts: 68women should also be able to fulfill their responsibilities towards their homes
The King’s Gambit: Chapter 5 (The Diplomat)
Omer Rafique Oct 21, 2002 interacts: 65Carl Davis had just lost one group of swing votes in his home state. He was going to make sure he did not lose the other group also.
From London to Sydney
Shravani Dang Oct 14, 2002 interacts: 4The greatest thing we have learned is that people across the world are remarkably similar
Ahmedabad. Sept 23, 2002
Leya Mathew Oct 13, 2002 interacts: 2226 people have been killed in a terrorist attack in some mandir in Gandhi Nagar
In Afghan Refugees’ Camp
Sheharyar Khan Oct 4, 2002 interacts: 20As I entered the camp, I was stunned by the contrast between the posh villas at my back and the mud houses on the bank of sewerage line in my front.
All The Way To Maine
Dilip DSouza Sep 12, 2002 interacts: 30How some Pakistani and Indian kids found out that the enemy has a face.
Bitter, Not Sweet
Bina Shah Sep 11, 2002 interacts: 95We were treated to a shootout between seven Al-Qaeda suspects hiding in a residential apartment about three minutes away from my house.
The Thousand-Yard Stare
Zafar Anjum Sep 8, 2002 interacts: 9The story of Samira, a Palestinian girl, from the refugee camp of Gaza.
Action To Support Displaced Community in Gujrat
Ajay Raina Aug 22, 2002 interacts: 190I grow more certain day by day that we must start in Gujarat, what we did not do in Kashmir
Search for Identity -1, Saeed Anjum’s Short Stories
Saadat Saeed Jul 25, 2002 interacts: 17The day you kill me.
in my pocket you will find
a ticket to Loveland.
The Riverbank
Hamid Mahmood Jul 22, 2002 interacts: 63Mahmood felt as if he was choking. Choking in the polluted environment of our society.
Kashmir Fatigue
Ajay Raina Jun 17, 2002 interacts: 705I still have a home there and I am looking forward to my permanent return
DIL’s Caravan of Hope
Ras Siddiqui Jun 6, 2002 interacts: 36DIL has already changed the lives of over 8000 underprivileged children
From The Table
Temporal Apr 16, 2002 interacts: 44You can’t dance around or over me, cannot provoke me, arouse me or hear the scream of my soul.
The Red Dress
Zafar Anjum Mar 29, 2002 interacts: 70With the mountainous weight of forty-three years
Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza
Godot Mar 22, 2002 interacts: 45Translated from Urdu, a story by Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi (1962)
Forced Marriages in the UK
Tariq Ali Dec 30, 2001 interacts: 41Parents don’t listen to what their children want
The Taste of this Eid
Bina Shah Dec 23, 2001 interacts: 10it made no difference that we had all tried to be so good
Reaction
Zehra Rizvi Dec 22, 2001 interacts: 128Terrorists Breeding In Your Gentrified Neighbourhood of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.
Diwali...Then
P Venkatraman Nov 22, 2001 interacts: 35A humourous and nostagiac look at Diwali preparations in middle class Bombay 30 years back.
When the Lights Hurt the Eyes
Farzana Versey Nov 14, 2001 interacts: 384Our superstitions are world-renowned. We feed the poor in designated months...
Some Birds Don’t Fly
Hamidah Hemani Nov 11, 2001 interacts: 20I can hear the jingle of her ankle bracelet in rhythm to the heavy tabla beats
Open Letter to O. B. Laden
Shahgul Sep 14, 2001 interacts: 106Bin Laden! Yes, I am talking to you. Person to person.
A Pakistani School’s Visit to India
Alia Amirali Aug 16, 2001 interacts: 1051Nowhere else in the world can one enter an enemy country and feel so at ease.
Devi Dies ...
Gomathy Venkateswar Jul 15, 2001 interacts: 13It was April 1939, hot and sultry in the district forest town of Tirupattur.
The Girl in the Meadow
socratez Jul 9, 2001 interacts: 13A story for young children and their parents
The Indus that Strayed
Gomathy Venkateswar Jun 30, 2001 interacts: 28It was the summer of 1944, and Delhi was like a furnace ...
Little White Pills
A Bismil Jun 17, 2001 interacts: 76Warning (Mature Content ) - He said goodbye to Rahul and his misery.
The Shah of Chicago II
A J Nabi May 25, 2001 interacts: 18the place was thick with smugglers and heroin factories
Just Another Stupid Love Story
Urstruly Apr 8, 2001 interacts: 224Women show varying degrees of interest in my wrists
This Visit To Pakistan
Hassan Gardezi Feb 21, 2001 interacts: 412one notices some interesting adaptations in the life styles of upper classes
Spew
Shandana Minhas Feb 12, 2001 interacts: 27the city staggered to its feet like a dazed Cockroach
Brocade
Jawahara Saidullah Feb 3, 2001 interacts: 74Like a worm they have crept inside my perfect daughter’s heart and mind
Sheher Ka Larka, 1947
Rehan Ansari Feb 2, 2001 interacts: 34he saw Amritsar aflame from his passing train
An Eyewitness’ Account of Death, Horror And Misery
Veeresh Malik Feb 2, 2001 interacts: 42The enormity of the quake had still not hit us
The Day When God Died
Urstruly Jan 13, 2001 interacts: 284I have an innate fear of the news of someone’s demise.
Defending the Indefensible
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jan 7, 2001 interacts: 12a lazy and heartless educational bureaucracy
An Obituary
Shandana Minhas Nov 20, 2000 interacts: 17Whatever you did to the least of my children, you did it for Me
Anything But Vacant
Omar Phoenix Nov 19, 2000 interacts: 29I would like some thighs, cut the fat, I want it lean
Ganapathy and The Drillmaster
Bindu V Shridar Nov 9, 2000 interacts: 12Ganapathy loved food. In any form, shape or size
Ismat Chughtai’s Autobiography -- A Transalation
Muniba Kamal Nov 8, 2000 interacts: 47Let her, said my father
The Relationship That Heals
Ali Hashmi Nov 1, 2000 interacts: 28no one comes to see me because they are happy or content with their life.
Neither Heaven Nor the World Under My Feet
Onaissa Qais Sep 4, 2000 interacts: 20Before Rayan was born, my days were perfect
Is the Language of New Fiction Androgynous?
Harish Nambiar Aug 31, 2000 interacts: 7Does literature too have sex?
Piecing Together Old Bahawalpur
Wasiq N Khan Aug 18, 2000 interacts: 14A call to preserve Bahawalpur’s architecture is long overdue
The day I got circumcised
A Shiraz Jun 12, 2000 interacts: 102a purple bank note (50 rupees!!) if I go through the operation like a man. . .
Oi, Kinniyaan Memaan Keetiyan Ne.
Omar Phoenix Jun 1, 2000 interacts: 19It’s a clean slate,
The Paki’s had his fun,
Tower of Babel
Shehlah Zahiruddin May 31, 2000 interacts: 12My language was peppered with baithtta hoon and khata hoon along with the elongation of almost all Urdu words with aan such as ainak-aan...
Touch
A Shiraz May 25, 2000 interacts: 29In the West, by the way, that is where our son will eventually go to study...they brutally electrocute an animal to death...
The Point
Shandana Minhas May 23, 2000 interacts: 123“main Mussalman hoon”...Can a man dressed like this do something like
The Louder Echo
Nauman Khalid May 14, 2000 interacts: 2children are more comfortable, knowledgeable, and literate than their parents
Calendarical Sense
Owais A Saeed Mar 24, 2000 interacts: 9What has cricket got to do with my problem?
A Full Belly Speaks Persian
Zeejah Mar 20, 2000 interacts: 8I resented the hill-folk the luxury of modern technology
Goodbye, yellow brick road..
Shandana Minhas Feb 12, 2000 interacts: 23today is the first day of my last week as a teacher...
Unquestionable Changes?
Sobia Aslam Jan 25, 2000 interacts: 42Where did the sehra go?...once a part of the ~QThings to wear on the Big Day~R manual for men...
Revolution in the Westerlies
Tariq Ahmad Sep 10, 1999 interacts: 13The prodigious son of a devout nation, Karachi sleeps late into the night.
San Diego Warming’
Rizwana Z Khan Sep 4, 1999 interacts: 4... fifty plus people of all sizes and ages convened for a slumber party
Of Boylove and Boylovers
Sabia Ahmed Aug 31, 1999 interacts: 223We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe
Threads - Part 2
Star Marlboro Aug 28, 1999 interacts: 11the city she would greedily crave for after she left
The Bird of Crimson and Gold
Jawahara Saidullah Aug 17, 1999 interacts: 19And it said to her, “it is coming. Be patient.”
Eqbal Ahmed - As I Knew Him
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 27, 1999 interacts: 10I had not heard of Eqbal Ahmad until I heard him speak in 1971 at an anti-war demonstration at MIT
Lies of the Western ‘Science of Islam’
Parvez Manzoor May 1, 1999 interacts: 17Mass killing in the name of the state is legitimate and justified; sporadic acts of violence in the name of religion (read: Islam) are illicit and immoral
Snakebite
Bina Shah Mar 30, 1999 interacts: 13From the hole, a large hissing sound escapes, and she shrieks..
Shaam Ki Biathaak
Content Mar 9, 1999 interacts: 10A place almost completely secluded from the rest of the world.
Buta, Pattey and Allah Chowrangi
Saima Shah Mar 6, 1999 interacts: 22In a lonely December night four men died in the city of Karachi ...
Jaya: Chronicle of an Anonymous Death
Jawahara Saidullah Feb 9, 1999 interacts: 9There is no one here, Jaya, only you, I tell myself.
Dust and Color
Anne Shamim Jan 25, 1999 interacts: 19From the world of glass and gray to a world of dust and color.
The Never-Ending Story
Kaneez Rehman Jan 23, 1999 interacts: 117A womans take on being a ’druggie’ in Pakistan
The Daily Grind
Saad Shafqat Dec 5, 1998 interacts: 51Deodorant and excrement in Karachi, circa 1985.
A Courier With Urgent News
Saima Shah Nov 14, 1998 interacts: 9Out there, up there somewhere is tomorrow and tomorrow will make today okay
Waziria’s Dilemma
Ajnabi Nov 13, 1998 interacts: 12The Minister sweated with excitement. His agents had brought him news of very serious weight.
Bookstore Lessons
Bina Shah Nov 5, 1998 interacts: 7Watching the two boys... I was seized by the impulse to do something for them...
Evil Spirits Travel in Straight Lines
Sheldon Pacotti Oct 19, 1998 interacts: 3Two French scientists go to Senegal to fight a resistant strain of malaria.
The Lost Generation
Shandana Minhas Oct 8, 1998 interacts: 17You cannot throw a stone without hitting a cynic here
Khodoki
Sheldon Pacotti Aug 11, 1998 interacts: 1Down and out in Leninsk, Kazakhistan: an old technician at Russia’s largest spaceport
Incantation
Sheldon Pacotti Jun 29, 1998 interacts: 3Where intelligence can be enhanced with expensive pharmaceuticals, a poor boy needs an alternative medicine
The Judge
Saima Shah Jun 22, 1998 interacts: 27It was an ordinary summer in a very hot country. Life was full of possibilities and poetry.
Calligraphy of Coils
Rehan Ansari and Rajinder S Pal May 11, 1998 interacts: 1A conversation with Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali
Azadi
Sheldon Pacotti Mar 24, 1998 interacts: 5A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol
Status of Parents in Al-Quran
Kashif A Shehzada Mar 19, 1998 interacts: 7What sort of a relationship should we maintain with our parents? In what matters are we not allowed to obey them? Answers from a Qur’anic perspective.
The Bitter Taste of Milk: A Novel
Quinton Zondervan Mar 18, 1998 interacts: 3Chowk showcases the work of a young writer with the weekly serialization of his first novel
Climate Controlled
Shan Anwar Mar 1, 1998 interacts: 6The stench of poverty, was real,unfiltered, emanating from the open sewers, over which, now, a dark, naked child smiles, squats.
Pirani
Jamal Abro Feb 14, 1998 interacts: 8The mother broke down, her heart crushed, her very vitals cut into pieces. She screamed, Pirani, oh, my little Pirani! The girl shrieked back...
On The Other Hand
Tahnoon Pasha Feb 4, 1998 interacts: 27I have spent five of my twenty-nine years in Pakistan ... They were the best years of my life.
The Good, the Bad and the Anxiety
Bad Girl Jan 27, 1998 interacts: 60Can’t we make choices about how to lead our lives without someone out there thinking that we are breaking a religious or cultural law? Who decides what these laws are anyway?
Selective Islam in Pakistan
Imran Khan Jan 21, 1998 interacts: 50I feel there are certain western countries with far more Islamic traits than us, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens.
The Highway of Death
Aatish Jan 19, 1998 interacts: 18And as my children also die to feed you
A fire smoulders again
Swinging Cradles
Ras Siddiqui Dec 21, 1997 interacts: 2This poem is dedicated to Bilquis Edhi and Karachi’s Khazana-I-Atfal (Babies Nest)...
Love Means Never Having to Say You Are An Infidel!
Moe Chaudry Nov 26, 1997 interacts: 21Can you be a Muslim and marry a Jew? A closer look at inter-religious marriages.
Tania
Umair A Khan Nov 20, 1997 interacts: 15Tania. He has looks, he has a BMW, he has all the girls he can handle, said Saadia beginning to wrap the phone cord around her fingers.
The ABCD of Melting Pots
Moe Chaudry Nov 12, 1997 interacts: 7We swallowed the melting pot myth of America hook, line, and sinker … we ate spaghetti, chicken fried rice, and hot dogs and believed that these culinary delights originated in places like Boston, Wichita, and Phoenix.
As Long As It Does Not Affect You
Umair A Khan Oct 23, 1997 interacts: 5So a woman needs to get married but a man doesn’t?
On the Costs of Self-Reliance
Tahnoon Pasha Sep 9, 1997 interacts: 3and we can’t build in brick because we keep stealing each other’s bricks. There’s a little twist to this tale. The wolves aren’t at the door. The werewolves walk among us...
Akbar Mai
Afzal Upal Sep 9, 1997 interacts: 18Ramzan had offered to have her as his second wife but Akbar Mai had refused.
Sahara Cup: A Preview
Abdul Hussain Sep 9, 1997However much the authorities in the sub-continent try to kill the whole bribery affair, the fact is that it will not die...
Reminisce
Kenyan Aug 8, 1997 interacts: 1Our first entry in The Leafy Glade Inn’s Victorian Study, is one in which the author softly remembers people in a place far, far away in the past.
