Articles with tag: mother
Love at Shara Zawia
Prashant Bhatt Oct 5, 2008 interacts: 1Muneer and Emily had gone to Tangiers to register their marriage, as many foreigners who marry in Libya do.
Emily does not like to talk about these things.
Happy Mother's Day
ammara ahmad May 11, 2008 interacts: 15Today, 11th May is Mother’s Day. It is almost absurdly romantic that a country like Pakistan would celebrate a day like to honor mothers!
The Psychology of Mothering
Khalid Sohail Apr 13, 2008 interacts: 287It is interesting that as our culture is changing and many women are reluctant to take on motherly duties, more men are becoming motherly and nurturing.
The Guava Woman’s Crèche
Lokhi Menon Oct 25, 2007 interacts: 2
Remembering sweet-tartness, salivating,
People taste them with their eyes.
A matronly woman stoops and buys.
Catharsis
Ayesha Umar Oct 9, 2007 interacts: 10This house was her mother’s. This house was killing her slowly but surely. She could feel mother’s presence everywhere in every nook and corner of this house…
Young and Old
Lokhi Menon Sep 22, 2007 interacts: 11When I see her motionless, swollen hands with disfigured nails and twisted fingers, I remember that those same hands gently soothed me as a child when I had asthma attacks.
Mother Teresa’s Moment of Truth
Mohammad Gill Sep 4, 2007 interacts: 98Soon afterwards the doubts and skepticism, not about her missionary work but her faith, began to assail her mind and lasted until her death.
Sunshine, Smiles and Flowers
Raiya Hashmi Jun 26, 2007 interacts: 4A small rectangular album fell in my lap as I pulled out the dusty box resting in the innermost corner of my cupboard. This brown box labeled “Viking Dinner Set” contained possessions from my college days.
Do Corn Pops Really Determine the Future?
nazish nomani Sep 7, 2005 interacts: 14I am normal. My other half is not. To answer your next question, yes I do prefer a venti white chocolate mocha with no shot of raspberry over a tall white chocolate mocha with a shot of raspberry
So Long Farewell
sameena khan Jul 29, 2005 interacts: 15It was her mother’s funeral. The woman residing within her had cast a demonic, necromantic spell upon her. Like Mephistopheles having lost his soul, she, the daughter, sat frozen and immobile bereft of any sense of loss or grief – one insurmou
Monsoon arrives
Sucheta Potnis Jul 8, 2004 interacts: 28I suppose had I been anyone other than the beloved daughter of Babliseth, my husband would have left me long back. After all, there has to be someone to enjoy the enormous Caculo wealth. Under the beady eyes of my father though he had no hope of marrying
Malka Pukhraj
farazeh syed May 9, 2004 interacts: 15She was Durga in her fearless strength and ferocious courage as a woman, and Sarasvati in her fine sensibilities and aesthetics and her desire for learning
Mother
Temporal May 9, 2004 interacts: 17Soul of man developed gradually
Exemplary man rose from this soul
and put to rest death once again
nobody eulogises Death anymore
Naila
Rakaposh May 8, 2004 interacts: 27She looked the same as she did before at her funeral. That was my first Namaz e janaza. I looked at the crowd: 30 people maybe. Most of them didn’t know her well either. 800 at the wedding and 30 at the funeral.
Baby’s Room
Sucheta Potnis Apr 15, 2004 interacts: 24She got up then, and laughed out aloud, her laughter drowning out the baby’s cries. As the baby heard the alien sound of laughter from his mother’s familiar voice, his cries dwindled to a whimper.
Our Mother
storyteller Apr 13, 2004 interacts: 19And together we stand as one before our mother. Our mother, who at times didn’t give enough and at other times gave too much, until she ran out of herself.
Memory and other Poems
Fatima Husain Mar 6, 2004 interacts: 26My mother says
if women did not forget,
they would have just that one child.
I am the result of her forgetfulness.
