Articles with tag: memoir
Warday
Ali Rizvi Feb 2, 2008 interacts: 12A continuation of the Graphic novel WARDAY, but from the perspective of ex-patriot Pakistani population stranded after a 36 hour nuclear holocaust.
My Teenage Years in Lahore
Asim Shore Nov 18, 2007 interacts: 18As I sit here on my desk at work, sipping my persimmon white tea in a delicate persian tea cup, I close my eyes and let my mind wander to my teenage years in Lahore, Pakistan.
Farewell to Shimla
Nasim Hassan Sep 23, 2007 interacts: 384Life was normal in early 1947 till June when sporadic incidents of ethnic violence began. In July of 1947, the Muslims started leaving Shimla for Pakistan.
From Memory Lane to Love Lane
Karamatullah K Ghori Dec 15, 2006 interacts: 8My memory lane of Karachi, the city I call my own, begins at Love Lane, nearly sixty years ago, at the confluence of Pakistan’s birth as a free state. Whenever I travel down the nostalgia highway, it never misses to exit at that intersection.
Seventy Days in Karachi
Sameena Iqbal Mar 31, 2005 interacts: 33I never really realized how quickly time would run out like sand in an hourglass...
A Flight into Time
Nazar Khan Mar 15, 2005 interacts: 28We fly over runway threshold, enter the runway and flare out at 30 feet. Then throttles get back to ’Idle’. Airplane rides on a cushion of ground effect. The wheels scrape the earth surface. We are at Athens, Greece.
The Covered Trucks
Harish Nambiar Mar 4, 2005 interacts: 30PART II - We left Vapi the next morning, March 3. We started out towards Nasik, back into Maharashtra. Nasik was a four hour ride through rugged low lying bald hills, taking the full blast of the March sun’s fury blazing away...
My Mother, Myself
Samina Rizwan Feb 8, 2005 interacts: 9As an Air Force wife who saw her combat pilot husband through two wars and a highly charged flying career, my mother witnessed many fatal air crashes...
Can an American Student Survive in Pakistan?
farheen khan Jan 5, 2005 interacts: 30It is common to hear of students coming to America from Pakistan for the purposes of studying abroad, but what happens when an American goes to Pakistan to study.
The Nylon Descent
Nazar Khan Dec 6, 2004 interacts: 72The rocket under my seat fired. My seat was catapulted out of the aircraft at a high speed shearing through the glass canopy overhead shattering it into bits. The rocket propelled the seat vertically 200 feet high.
The New Beginning
Mohammad Gill Nov 1, 2004 interacts: 37My story is the story of many thousands of other people on both sides of the line. I regard myself lucky in one way that my family and I didn’t suffer any loss of limb....
The Allahabad I Knew
Jawahara Saidullah Oct 27, 2004 interacts: 58A customer was looking for Jacques Derrida’s works. He and the owner lamented Derrida’s death before launching into a passionate discussion on deconstruction. I smiled to myself. This was the Allahabad I remember, where words and books and wri
Jamnagar Memoirs
Parag Vohra Sep 23, 2004 interacts: 30It may seem strange that a celebratory function was held a day after a plane had gone down with officers and crew. Armed Forces in general have the ethos that the show must go on. Comrades will die and they will be mourned yet life must go on.
Reminiscing with an Old Heart
Afrasiyab Aug 4, 2004 interacts: 8Half a chance is what you always have. Always remember that! People, who get something or somewhere, have to play at half chances. A sure thing comes along but once in a lifetime.
Zwingli’s Zurich
Banjaara Jul 15, 2004 interacts: 36Looking eastward between the cobbled lanes across the Limmat river up into the mountains, I found my self gazing at a pair of minaret like towers that looked incongruous in the heart of Christian Europe...
Outside Looking In
Amanullah Kariapper May 16, 2004 interacts: 4She asks about the way – robbers, road conditions, ETA. The drivers and local staff inform her that there have been robberies on the way and the town itself has a ‘dangerous reputation’...
The Travelogue of an Astronomer
Salman Hameed May 12, 2004 interacts: 4An astronomer’s journey to the volcanic island of La Palma, located off the coast of Morocco.
The Girl from Napoli
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 7, 2004 interacts: 48Al Ghazzali said that it is impossible to describe the pleasures of orgasm to an impotent man no matter how much one tries.
Solace
Rozaiba Mar 29, 2004 interacts: 42My eyes fail the fight to remain closed. I can hear the muezzin just finishing the druud-o-salaam before he begins waking those who are faithfully asleep.
Making Waves in the Sky
Nazar Khan Mar 23, 2004 interacts: 51We were now only a few hundred feet above the ground and cutting through the air really fast. All eyes were glued to the sky. We were in the stadium for only a few fleeting moments; and then it was all over.
Flashbacks from School
Nazar Khan Dec 17, 2003 interacts: 54Those were also the days when we grew by an inch a month and the body chemistry was changing rapidly. Our voices changed and hair began to grow at odd places. Unfamiliar powerful forces, of which we knew little about, were building up inside us ...
Sargodha & Migs
Nazar Khan Oct 19, 2003 interacts: 79But the skyline of Sargodha would always remember the roars and thunders of those quaint Chinese birds which kept its skies so colourful, noisy and interesting for so many years.
The Summer of ’69
Nazar Khan Jun 2, 2003 interacts: 198Her fully blossomed body in a tight swimsuit with both of them visible was an uncomfortable sight and the tension in us would soon be uncontrollably evident on our tight swimming trunks.
