Articles with tag: old

Live In

Prashant Bhatt Nov 3, 2008

“The world outside the campus is very cruel. There are people who pass sarcastic remarks or start giving patronizing advice regarding my job, career, potential marriage” she told as they sat together

An Ode Called Amritsar

ammara ahmad Jul 14, 2008 interacts: 141

On hearing that I was about to visit her ancestral city, my mother gave me instructions to reach her childhood home from the railway station...

Chillchinga, the US Soldier

kashkin dabruski Apr 22, 2008 interacts: 1

The only desire now
To go home
To converse few words
In Spanish as he pays the price
For migration and adventure

Ashes in the River

Lokhi Menon Jan 8, 2008 interacts: 5

...at that stage all the differences are really wiped out.

Artifice of Scholarship : CSPI on FrontPage

Anand Patwardhan Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 2

Where will Mr. Warner hide when faced with the ignobility of logic deserting his beloved Christianity? What will he do when the devil of duality is discovered in his own sacred texts?

Monar Jomban (part 1 of 4)

Manali Chakrabarti Mar 9, 2007 interacts: 8

“Esfahan what can I write about you which has not been written before.” I quote a forgotten writer who was apparently jailed and then killed, perhaps for his writings. He was an Esfahani. I am not- but I realise that big cities and old ones, h

Three Score and Ten?

V S Gopalakrishnan Jun 24, 2006 interacts: 20

You see, the reason I have brought in this matter is that I am 66 years and just four years from the biblical limit! Having worked full-time like a donkey till last year, I as a retired man now am freely indulging myself

Kill for a Pill

Fazeel Chauhan May 6, 2006 interacts: 11

And then call this patriotism like Hitler
Then call it “christianity”
And murder, “sanctioned by jesus
And god bless America”

Red Sea Rising

Fahd Raza Mar 8, 2006 interacts: 81

America is still at the same place, using double standards and double edged swords to promote both Pakistan and India, the former by diplomatic patronizing and the latter with economic and military assistance. However, one key player has changed -- China

Night Out

soma sarkar Oct 20, 2005 interacts: 37

Mrs. Da Cuhna handled death like she handled life. Head-on, with zest. Today was Joe, her husband’s funeral.

Autumn Harvesting

Temporal Sep 29, 2005 interacts: 12

with ever so trembling hands
he felt for his back pocket
in a gesture reminiscent
of slow motion pictures

Aging Gracefully

Mohammed Amjed Dec 16, 2004 interacts: 4

The cold, steely chain of suffering
Circles the night decked with sorrows

The Ugly Empire

Haroon Moghul Sep 16, 2003 interacts: 5

Over the last year, I’ve become colder, harder, more indifferent to other people, and though sometimes it’s nice to brush everyone and everything off, it is also worrying

Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza

Godot Mar 22, 2002 interacts: 45

Translated from Urdu, a story by Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi (1962)

Selective Islam in Pakistan

Imran Khan Jan 21, 1998 interacts: 50

I feel there are certain western countries with far more Islamic traits than us, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens.